Wind River climbing trip teaser

Dawn and Haystack mtn



Deep Lake, The Steeple is on the leftish, and Lost Temple Spire is hiding in the corner of East Temple Peak in the middle


Another teaser report. This one is from a climbing trip with Dawn into Deep Lake and the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range, Wyoming. We climbed Steeple Peak, Lost Temple Spire, Wolf's Head, and Warbonnet. We also experienced sun, snow, rain, exhaustion, and mosquitos. A good time was had by all.


Wolf's head is the jagged darker ridge


Warbonnet - we went up the NE face left (more of less) the middle of the upper face.



Eventually I hope to get a full trip report up, but I am busy now - time to climb at Tensleep.

Later: as promised, here is a link to the Wind Rivers Climbing Trip Report

the spot track of this trip is here

TMF 2010 part I

The first part of the TMF 2010 trip report is up now, you can check it out on the Wend blog or about the same info on my web page.

There is a mini teaser report here on this blog or on the yogaslackers blog.

More coming soon (I hope).

As promised, here are part II and Part III at Wend

Too Much Fun 2010 Teaser

The Too Much Fun (TMF) 2010 expedition went to the Wind River Range from July 20-25th, 2010. 6 of us hiked in about 20 miles for our first camp near Arrowhead Peak.

Chelsey, Daniel, and Jason packed into their "tent"

The next day the rain hit when we were about to start climbing. This made things interesting. The rain continued as we recollected our stuff and headed over to Titcomb Basin. It stormed a lot that night. The next day we climbed the S buttress of Tower 1 on Mt Helen and then up to the summit.

Mt Helen from our camp

On day 4 we headed over Bonney Pass and climbed Gannet Peak, then down the N ridge and west into the Wells Creek drainage.

Acroyoga on the summit of Gannet

On day 5 we descended (a little sketchy) to the Green River and packrafted down to in between the Green River Lakes. On day 6 we hiked around the other lake and rafted down the Green River for a long ways, then we got an amazing ride back to our cars. As you can imagine, the gear and miles required for this trip meant that there wasn't a lot of room left for comfort - hence the other name for this trip, a sufferfest. For instance, we had 2 tiny shelters and 2 sleeping bags (added at the last minute) for 6 people and we took hand paddles to save weight. Good times were had by all, but not all the time.

Hand paddling down the Green River with Squaretop in the background

This is just a teaser post, there will be a more complete trip report coming sometime. I'll put a link here when that happens.

As promised, here are some links... to the Wend blog or about the same info on my web page.


link to the spot track from this trip

Windy Mountain Hike Teaser

Another Teaser, this time of a hike into the Wind River Range starting at Dickinson Park and hiking or scrambling up Cathedral Peak and then Windy Mountain (12,539). That night I bivied over 12,000 feet sheltered in a V shaped rock formation. The wind was really high and gusty though and it was cold. I was glad to see the sun the next morning. The next morning I scrambled up peak 12,490 and Mount Chauvenet before hiking back out the Bears Ears Trail. The wind kept the mosquitos at bay most of the time, but also made it cold and knocked over some trees. As usual the views were spectacular and the amount of rock is staggering. In this picture from Mount Chauvenet you can see Cathedral Lake in the middle and Wind River on the horizon on the right (the snowy peak that I climbed last year).I made it back to Lander in time to catch Tartuffe by Moliere put on in the park.


here is my spot track from this trip

a more complete trip report can be seen here