Trip Report
Basic Rock Climb - The Tooth/South Face
Perfect day out with excellent team. Huckleberries are ripe!
Alina Badus
- Thu, Aug 27, 2020
- Basic Rock Climb - The Tooth/South Face
- The Tooth/South Face
- Climbing
- Successful
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- Road suitable for all vehicles
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Easy to find, easy to approach, easy to climb. The approach through the boulder fields seems to get shorter and smoother every time - look for cairns and trail segments that get you most of the way through.
As my two alarm clocks went off at 3:45am, I questioned my sanity as well as my life choices. I love the Tooth, but wasn’t I just there? And again “just there” before that? But anything worth doing is worth doing to excess, I guess, so I got out of bed and went to climb the Tooth for the third time this month.
Left cars ~6:15am
Pineapple Pass ~9am, no moat issues (PC: Adam):
First rope lead started ~9:30am
First rope team on summit ~11am, time for a little nap:
All on summit ~11:30am
Start rappels ~12noon
All down, ropes pulled, leave notch ~1:30pm (we rocked those rappels!)
Back at cars ~4:15pm
Many thanks to Peter C for mentoring me; Barb M for being an awesome rope lead, mentor and friend; Paul B for helping organize the climb (sorry we went without you!); and the entire team for being fun, efficient, easy-going and well-prepared.