Basic Alpine Climb - Lundin Peak/West Ridge

hiked up guye/snoqualmie trail and then took snoqualmie fork and then took climber's path to valley between cave ridge and snoqualmie.  walked up valley.  headed up toward lion's head/chief seattle rock and gained ridge(we could have gained the ridge below(climber's riight) the lion's head/chief seattle rock).  took ridge until we could traverse to base of lundin west ridge.  we harnessed up.  
scrambled along ridge(class 3/4), then traversed on north side of ridge on goat paths, then headed back up to ridge.  i led up a little 40' easy class 4 face climber's left of the rap route, placing one #1 cam and then belayed the rest of us up.  easy scramble to summit.  one rap <15m.
this year there was water in the valley between cave ridge and mount snoqualmie.  one of the previous years there wasn't.

 4:42 car to summit
 0:24 summit stay
 3:59 summit to car
 9:05 car to car

equipment: 30m rope, harness, helmet, rock shoes #1 cam
equipment brought, but not used: .5cam, .75 cam

compare to:
lundin 7-30-2014

5.25mi 3336' gain
3:01 car to base of climb
1:53 base of climb to summit
0:39 summit stay
3:32 summit to car
9:04 car to car
equipment: harness, helmet, 120' 8mm rope, one 30m 8mm rope, rock shoes
equipment brought but not used: cams

lundin + snoqualmie 8-14-2013

5.61mi 3743' gain
2:14 car to snoqualmie summit
0:05 summit stay
2:37 snoqualmie summit to lundin summit
0:13 summit stay
3:51 lundin summit to car
9:00 car to car
equipment: helmet, harness, 30m rap rope, rock shoes