Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board What you climbed in 2011, what you plan for 2012

I'll start off the list...

A buddy and I were talking about climbing back in September, 2010 and he asked if I were interested in Mt. Rainier in 2011? Well, duh! So, we signed up with International Mountain Guides and summitted Rainier on a picture-perfect July morning. Kudos to IMG for running a first-class operation. We were very pleased with the staff and itinerary.

My plans for 2012? Continuing my quest for the 50 state highpoints, Mt. Hood in June. That'll probably do it for 2012, though, with BSA and other commitments during the summer.

Slowing down as I age. Only 6 14ers this year vs 9 last year. Still in 53 years of climbing there have been a great many 14ers climbed, many repeats of course.

If my health permits, I plan on a bunch in 2012.

I went and climbed the toughest mountain in the North East - Mt. Katahdin. Several people on the route compared it favorably to Mt. Whitney.

Whitney 4th time, by JMT, in August

Total knee replacement in November was far harder. I'll be back

I climbed Mt. Whitney on my B-Day in September and I am heading back next August with a group of friends.

2011
Hoffman
Tallac
North Dome
Shasta to the Thumb (whiteout ensued)
Whitney
Yosemite Falls
The Grand Canyon. (Yeah, I know it is in the wrong direction. But I climbed back out when I was done!)

2012
Kilimanjaro!

2011
Whitney (x2)
Baldy (x2)
9 Peaks in San Gorgonio Wilderness
Mt. Diablo (highest peak in Contra Costa County - my home county... at 3800'ish haha)
Everest Base Camp
Marion and Jean Peaks

2012
White Mountain
Langley
Possibly Whitney again

Alan Dude you hijacked my post!!!!!!! It's good. I was looking forward for this post because unless he's been keeping an ongoing spreadsheet it's going to take Richard a entire day to put a list together. He doesn't care about stats he only keeps track for me and Shin.
I had my best peak bagging year ever probally won't repeat in 2012 because Daddy duty calls but here's my list, allot of repeats: 51summits damn 1 short of 1 a week!

Baldy 22X
San Gorgonio 3X
Mt Langley 1X
Mt Whitney 1X
Olancha Peak(new one)
San Bernadino Peak
Jepson Peak 2X
Charleston Peak
Little Charleston Peak
East San Bernadino Peak
Zahniser Peak
Dobbs(new one)
West Dobbs(new one)
Grinnell(new One)
10K Ridge(new One)
Ixta(new One)
Nevado De Toluca(new one)
Hardwood(new one) 3X
Anderson(new one)
Shields Peak
Lake Peak(new one)
West Baldy 3X(new one)
Alto Diablo Peak

Yeti
PS: Richard now it's your turn!

Jeff,
You're insane !!!

2011Baldy, Too many to count

Aconcagua, Mendoza, Argentina

2012Cotopaxi, Antisana and Chimborazo (In the next 2 weeks) Quito, Ecuador

Dude, there a day left in the year! Run up Icehouse Canyon and tag Timber.

The latest forecast is calling for fairly warm (and not very windy for a change) weather on Whitney, so I'm looking to add Muir and a few others to get to nnn. (You'll find out on Tuesday...)

Hey Bob,

Been awhile man sent you a few PM's you get them'. Nice work on the Big A look forward to seeing your pics down in Ecuador send them to my work email. Thanks for the compliment I had a good year for a Dad. Would like to get out more but got to be with, no I want to be with my girl...

Richard I can't wait till Tuesday to see your list man....And no i'm not running up Timber I'm going to go enjoy some good Taiwanese breakfeast tomorrow with the family then go celebrate the New Years with friends and good wine....
Happy New Year everybody. Look forward to climbing with ya'll in 2012....2012 my list will be very boring just local stuff maybe a Whitney summit or 2......
Yeti

More important than the numbers: the people who shared these climbs...

Started out the year on Mt. Baldy with a great group of friends and ended it mostly solo on our favorite mountain.

At the risk of qualifying for Doug's list of braggers:
- It's all Shin's fault... he wanted me to do at least 300. Sorry Shin.
- Calling some of these things peaks is a stretch...
- I came up 1 short on my last-minute adjustment to the "goal." (Where the heck is S' Brutal Tower?)
- 274 summits.
- 141 unique peaks (I desparately wanted this number to be more than half of the total.)
- 86 new peaks.

Highlights:
- Five Fingers and Mt. Baldy (most with Shin) in each month of the year.
- Shin on a motorcycle heading up to Five Fingers!
- 11 summits of Whitney in '11
- Oregon and Washington with RG and RK in July. Finally getting to the summit of Mt. Baker.
- Mexico in November


New Year's Resolution: quit counting!

20 Mt. Baldy
11 Mt. Whitney
26 Five Fingers
3 John Backus Peak
2 Russell Peak
8 Owens Peak
14 Morris Peak
11 West Baldy
8 Mt. Harwood
2 Bennett Peak
2 Rogers Peak
6 Mt. Jenkins
1 Mt. Baden-Powell
2 Boulder Peak
1 Carl Heller Rocks
2 Peak 5300
1 Tit 5352
3 Lamont Peak
1 Butterbredt Peak
1 Mayan Peak
2 Wyleys Knob
1 Skinner Peak
1 Peak 6592
1 Pinky Finger
2 Middle Knob
1 Peak 5920+
2 Chuckwalla Mountain
5 Peak 6529
1 Cross Mountain
1 Peak 3620+
1 Sugarloaf
1 Gold Peak
1 Pinyon Mountain
2 Sorell Peak
1 Peak 5640+
1 Peak 5502
1 Peak 6652
1 Peak 7125
1 Chimney Peak
1 Peak 5640+(2)
1 Peak 5600+
2 Perpendicular Peak (6352)
1 Peak 8337
1 Bear Benchmark
1 Peak 6398
1 Peak 5353
1 Peak 4962
2 East Lamont Peak
1 Telescope Peak
1 Wildrose Peak
2 Black Mountain
2 Timber Mountain
1 Scodie Mountain
1 Peak 6940
1 Olancha Peak
1 Mt. Keith
1 Peak 6486
1 Lamont Point
1 Peak 6273
2 Thunder Mountain
1 Pinyon Peak
1 Spanish Needle
1 Sawtooth Peak
1 Peak 6370
1 Peak 5585
2 Piute Lookout
1 Brown Peak
2 Liebel Peak
1 Bald Eagle Peak
1 Bales Benchmark
1 Piute Peak
1 Piute Benchmark
2 Sunday Peak
2 Portuguese Peak
2 Trail Peak
1 San Gorgonio Mountain
1 Jepson Peak
1 Little Jepson Peak
1 Little Charlton Peak
1 Charlton Peak
1 Alto Diablo Peak
1 Shields Peak
1 Anderson Peak
1 San Bernardino East Peak
1 San Bernardino Peak
2 Wanoga Peak
1 Mt. Hood
1 Middle Sister
1 Mt. Rainier
1 Mt. Baker
3 Granite Knob
1 Peak 9000 (Andrea)
2 Smith Mountain
2 Jackass Peak
1 Wright Mountain
1 Pine Mountain
1 Dawson Peak
1 Cirque Peak
1 Trailmaster Peak
1 Thor Peak
1 Candlelight Peak
1 Mt. Barnard
1 Trojan Peak
1 Polychrome Peak
1 Arrow Peak
1 Muah Mountain
1 Sharknose Ridge
5 Mt. Langley
2 Army Pass Point
1 Telegraph Peak
1 Bighorn Peak
1 The Major General
1 Mt. Irvine
1 Mt. Mallory
1 Brown Mountain
1 Monache Mountain
1 Parallel Benchmark
1 Tobias Lookout
1 Bull Run Peak
1 Peak 6244
1 Peak 5924
1 Robbers Roost
1 Peak 6274
1 Peak 11080
1 Split Mountain
2 Mt. Barcroft
2 White Mountain Peak
1 Piute Mountain
1 Sheep Mountain
1 Nevado de Toluca
1 Ixta
1 Pico de Orizaba
1 Probability Peak (Red Hill)
1 Rattlesnake Peak
1 Mt. Muir
1 Aiguille Junior
1 Aiguille du Paquoir
1 Aiguille Extra
1 Third Needle
1 Crooks Peak
1 Keeler Needle


Congratulations to everyone else for Getting Out There!

Richard that is a seriously impressive list. Shin and I had fun watching you climb this year and keeping track of your peak list.
Here's to adventures in 2012 although I won't be able to get out as much due to wife I do want to come up and finally bag Russell and Muir and do a speed ascent of Langley and Whitney.
We'll have fun watching and following your 2012 project....

Yeti

So, will you be going for 12 summits of Whitney in '12?

Cool Thread. I will play along

Completing the John Muir Trail was the highlight. As for peakbagging:

Mt. Whitney
Mt. Kaweah
Mt. Brewer
Eagle Scout Peak
Mt. Langley
Olancha Peak
Half Dome
North Dome
Winter Alta
Mt. Muir
Sawtooth Peak
Wotans Throne
Mt. Baldy & Friends
Mt. San Gorgonio & Friends
Mt. San Jacinto & Friends
Hines Peak
Topa Topa Bluffs

2012 Wishlist:
High Sierra Trail & John Muir Trail Together This August
Mt. Whitney
Mt. Goddard
Split Mtn.
White Mountain
Mt. Russell
Mt. Mallory & Mt. Irvine
Black Giant
Mt. Williamson

Looking forward to a great 2012

Hi Richard,
Happy New year !!
Thanks to you,I was able to hike Bear canyon/flat trail of Mt.Baldy 12 times last year. Now the trail became my favorite trail in Mt. Baldy even though it is a very hard trail with 6000 feet elevation gain in 6 miles. I used to hike this trail only once or twice in a year or I tried to avoid it. But you made me hike in very heavy snow in early spring,very hot summer,windy fall,and cold winter. Not only hiking to the summit of Mt. Baldy but also you added a few other peaks on the same hike for more distance and elevation. You stayed behind me to keep on pressuring me to hike up to the summit. Hiking with you helped me to improve my physical and mental endurance. That was the best training experience ever for me. Even though I am getting older year after year,you helped me to become a better hiker than 2010. I knew that it must have been very frustrating to hike with a person with less ability than you are. I am very grateful to you to put up with me. Your ability and experience didn't come from bookshelf. It came from your each steps on the trail of every peaks and hills of 2011 list.
Looking forward to hiking with you this year as well.

Don't forget to take a rest once in a while.

Shin

I spent some time at Peakbagger.com looking for info on S'brutal Tower and it turns out I climbed to the "summit" of it and somehow missed Aiguille Junior.

Here's a link to the photos from yesterday: http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/Whats-New-...4092257_NGmvHHm

I did more local peakbagging this year. I had 97 summits of 65 different mountains (30 in VA, 22 in CA, 8 in MD, 4 in PA and 1 in NV). Only 37 of the peaks were new to me; I would like to raise that number in 2012. There are still some major peaks near Mt. Whitney that I haven’t climbed yet (LeConte, McAdie, etc.), and I intend to focus on them this summer. Here I’ll just list the CA peaks I climbed in 2011:

Horseshoe Peak
Edge of the World Peak
Trailmaster
Peak 12417
Peak 12525
Cirque Peak
Mt. Gould
Mt. Whitney
Mt. Muir
Discovery Pinnacle
Rattlesnake Hill
The Fin
Woollyback
Thatcher Point
Owens Point
Peak 11297
Thor Peak
Mt. Carillon
Wells Peak x 5
Peak 10603 x 2
Lost Cannon Peak x 2
Peak 10490

Somewhere in between raising a 2 year old and keeping my employment 2011 was a good climbing year as well. RP's list (and 500K gain) put me to shame, but a few highlights.

Spent loads of time exploring the greater Shepherds Pass area, fun late sept climb of Trojan included traversing the nifty floating snow bridge on LHOT and great pics as I just beat the first snow of the season back to the bowl.

Trying to keep up with RP, Yeti and Shin on Langley dayhike. Seriously, couldn't it finish downhill?

-25 and hours of melting ice at Trail Camp with T-Bone

The Moose (not THAT Moose) following my wife and I up Grays & Torreys.

More Sandstone Peak climbs with the little one, now that she will be 3 she has to start getting out beyond the SM mountains. Let's get with the program :-)

I'd love to get on the Mexico trip in 2012 but we'll have to wait another year. Looking forward to more Cascades, more winter trips (snow please?), Great Western Divide peaks and trying to do some fishing in '12.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Maybe Gannett Peak in Wyoming this year if I start training now.