Trip Report
Sawtooths Photo TR
Friday September 21, 2012 10:16pm
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The Dragtooth doesn't look that far away....
The Dragtooth doesn't look that far away....
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North Buttress of Dragtooth- aka The Dragway
North Buttress of Dragtooth- aka The Dragway
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Fists forever to 5.10 OW
Fists forever to 5.10 OW
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Alpine Ninjas tiptoe around stacked death
Alpine Ninjas tiptoe around stacked death
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Cool to be able to see all the way to Bridgeport
Cool to be able to see all the way to Bridgeport
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Lots of sketchy soloing to get to the Matterhorn
Lots of sketchy soloing to get to the Matterhorn
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We ended up soloing part of the North Arete and the Double Dihedral- b...
We ended up soloing part of the North Arete and the Double Dihedral- but it felt like an FA the whole time...
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Summitorious
Summitorious
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snowhazed is a trad climber from Oaksterdam, CA.

Comments
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
  Sep 21, 2012 - 10:31pm PT
Your final shot is awesome!

Thanks for sharing!
mountain dog

Trad climber
over the hills and far away
  Sep 21, 2012 - 10:35pm PT
Very nice.
Ezra Ellis

Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
  Sep 21, 2012 - 11:06pm PT
Sweet, thanks much, some scary looking death blocks there fo sho!
limpingcrab

Gym climber
Minkler, CA
  Sep 21, 2012 - 11:19pm PT
Just got nervous looking at "stacked death." Looks like a perfect day exploring some mountains!
Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber
San Francisco
  Sep 21, 2012 - 11:50pm PT
That's an interesting traverse to Matterhorn. From where Double Dihedral tops out there is a wall with a choice to rap from sh#t-looking webbing to the right or go straight up a wall with first real pro kind of high up there. I remember that wall really well. : ) After we got to matterhorn we went over to Dragtooth and to Doodad though. Cool ridge, need to come back for the other part.


WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
  Sep 22, 2012 - 02:29am PT
Sweeeeeet!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
  Sep 22, 2012 - 07:46am PT
So beautiful!

Snowhazed, more pix?

How many days?

How many pitches?

Yikes, I've always hated dancing around blocks like that, and we just have to do too much of it eh?
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
  Sep 22, 2012 - 08:44am PT
Nice pics. Thanks for posting.

Yikes.. that death-flake looks freaky.
10b4me

Social climber
Lida Junction
  Sep 22, 2012 - 11:51am PT
^^^+1
snowhazed

Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
Author's Reply  Sep 22, 2012 - 05:17pm PT
Car to Car endeavor (actually t meadows to t meadows), 14 hours round trip. Coming from sea level probably accounted for a few hours :)

Pitches? Simuled a few, roped 3-4, soloed many many many

Yeah Vitaliy- that sh#t webbing on DD is now a crusty bleached fragment- the beautiful wall above was quite nice in the late day glow.

With the heavy melt, that range is the most active I have ever encountered. We witnessed and heard huge amounts of natural rockfall. On the dragway we heard a REAL loud one. I was belaying and my bud and on lead he asked down- "Can you see it?" and I responded "You'll see it in just a second!" A fridge was cartwheeling down the snow- hit a rut- caught at least 150 feet of air and then smashed into another boulder pile- obliterating everything. Pretty exciting.

Here's a few more pics






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