We spent the afternoon of our rest day relaxing at our new camp below
haystack mountain, watching a party “epic” on minor dihedral (way off route), which
we planned to climbed the next day (III 5.9 10p). Luckily we got some good beta from a
different party in the area about the proper route-finding and went to bed
nervous yet excited.
The next day, the route-finding went super smoothly and we
linked it down to 6 long pitches, including a 60m rope stretcher up the 5.9
money pitch in the dihedral proper.
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| starting up pitch 1 |
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| stoked for the money pitch |
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| pitch 5 (photo: chris) |
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| down the "grassy goat trail" |
We
heard that evening from folks hiking in (with llamas) that heavy rain was in
the forecast for the following day, which made us that much more appreciative
of how perfect the weather had been thus far on the trip. On our final day, we flirted with storm clouds on the
adventurous N ridge of steeple peak (III 5.8 5p) but fortunately nothing more
than a few raindrops fell until we were safely back on the ground and hiking
back to camp.
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| steeple peak (center) and east temple (R) |
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| racking up for the pitch 1 splitter (photo: chris) |
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| fun exposed pitch 2 |
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| summit pitch |
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| scoping lines on lost temple spire and east temple peak |
Once at camp, knowing that
heavy rain was in the forecast, we decided to hike out that evening in light intermittent rain showers. The skies
unleashed heavy rain on the long drive out to civilization but soon enough we
found ourselves feasting on greasy burgers in Pinedale, stoked on our outstanding
trip into the Winds. A big THANKS to Chris for being such a solid partner.
Rose: the great weather and how smoothly everything went on the 5 routes we did
Thorn: mosquitoes
Bud: carrying forward this alpine climbing experience to the
bugaboos in august and beyond
Thoughts: the climbing in the cirque as well as by deep lake
is incredibly good. There is A LOT of
climbing to be had beyond the classic routes.
the wind river range is a wild place, worthy of many future adventures
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