Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Forbidden Peak


On monday a friend and I climbed the East Ridge Direct route on Forbidden Peak. It was great to get out with another climber that I don't have to teach how to tie a figure eight. The road to the trail head isn't open yet (as of July 30) so It added an additional 2.75 miles each way. We woke up at about 3:30 am and made it back to the car about 16 hours later. Yea, we could of done better but I thought it was pretty good considering we climbed about 6,500 feet from the car, couldn't even find the peak because of a white out and had a pretty sketchy descent down the north east face of the mountain. Read more about the climb here.