Owing to the end of summer we thought this might be a ‘last chance’ for decent weather allowing us to do something fun and exciting in the mountains. Lucas and I also needed an escape so we decided to try something new and a bit more technical for “practice” and headed up to Vesper peak to do the N. face (via 1968 route). We woke up at 4:30 and a tad past 5:00 Lucas picked me up. The night before I had gone to an exceptional wine paring dinner and tried many fabulous wines accompanied by equally fabulous food. It ended up being an awesome night, albeit late with a bottomless glass of wine. Highly recommended, but possibly not the night before a 4:30 wake up call for a climb. Anyway, I digress. We were the first to the TH and started our climb up to the N face. We started below the clouds in gloom, hiked into the clouds, and finally got above the clouds about 500 feet below the start of the climb. It was surreal with all of the N cascade peaks sitting on top of the clouds. We worked our way for a good vantage point of the route (pictured). With a completely empty wall we took our time and proceeded to climb the 1968 route with Lucas leading the 3 pitches. Slow going and Lucas led them all. For us, there were a few uncomfortable spots due to lack of protection, but all in all, it was great rock and pretty easy going. We hung out just below the summit on a nice sunny rock enjoying the company, weather, and great climbing. Being such great weather, company, and not knowing when the next opportunity we would have to come back we took full advantage of the situation. Finally we headed back to the TH and arrived with the aid of our headlamps. Here's Lucas' description.
2 comments:
it's called Vesper dude.
they don't call me Dr. DA for nothing
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