Mt. Humphreys, California, USA (13,986 ft / 4263 m): via the East Arete
July 15, 2006
Brief report:
Climbed with Steve Larson. What he said (see below). Dehydrated on the way down; descended the SE gully, where we found running water from the snow melt. Around 10.5 hours car-to-car.
Steve Larson's summit log:
Climbed this fun arete with Miguel Forjan. We were a bit slow and made a couple of route finding errors, but still managed to top out in about 6.5 hours. Awesome wildflowers. We took a rope, but never used it on the way up. We did two raps on the way down, since we had the rope and the anchors were already in place. Not sure if that speeded things up at all. We both thought we were going to be able to fill up our hydration bladders at the lake below the saddle, but we came out several hundred feet above it, and didn't want to take the time to go fill up. We paid for that, with both of us running dry by the time we hit the summit. We were parched until we found running water on the descent. Warm weather and little wind. We had the summit to ourselves. Humphreys has the best views of any Sierra peak I can recall.
Additional info about climbing Mount Humphreys can be found here.
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By Miguel Forjan
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