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#14503 07/05/04 12:27 AM
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Left Meysan trailhead at 6:00, slogged up the saddle between Irvine and Candlelight, bagged Candlelight by 9:00. Decided to try the northeast ridge of Irvine. It was a mixture of slogging in scree and some nice bouldering. Reached the summit of Irvine by 11:30. The view from there is fantastic. If I had an ice axe with me I think I would have traversed over to Mt. Mallory and then glissaded down the snow chute back to Meysan lake. All in all a nice July 4th outing.


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Thanks for the information. I appreciate it when people post the times associated with their routes. What is the elevation of Candlelight? It's not listed on my map.

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I believe Candlelight Peak is 12,160 or so...


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I, too, have never seen it on a map, although it has been called that for well over 50 years. Secor doesn't mention it; I believe because it's merely a small bump on Irvine's NE ridge, so hardly a "mountain."

But it's a fine climbing objective. It was listed in Roper's 1976 High Sierra guidebook (as 12,000'+), and in Voge's prior 1954 guidebook (also as 12,000'+, although he called it Mount Candlelight). Both of these were the "official" Sierra Club guidebooks of the time, as I believe Secor's is now.

I know of at least 7 routes on it, ranging from class 2 to III, 5.6, A2. My favorite is the fine, exposed, class 3 east ridge, accessed from Lone Pine Lake.

On the 7.5 min metric topos, it shows above the 3720 m line but below 3740 m. So I've been calling its elevation 12,240'.

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White Mountain/
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Elev 12,410’

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Elev 11,441’

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Elev 10,700’

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