Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board Who Climbed what in 2009 Part 2.

Alan from St Louis posted this last year on 12-10-08. Thought it was a cool post. Some people don't keep track some do. Anyways' I thought it was cool. Richard and Mike if you reply put a link to your sites, your summits will take an entire page. Alan's original email from last year is below.



As the end of the year approaches, time for a retrospective. What peaks did you climb this year? (ok, Moosie...we know your list will take a whole page!!) What did you learn? What are your plans for 2009?

I'll kick things off...

Nathan and I hiked up Humphreys Peak in Arizona back in September. That brought his state highpoint total to 40 and mine to 42.

Plans for 2009 are still developing but I'd like to do Hood and Rainier next summer.

Mt. Whitney 22x
Owens Peak 17x
Thor Peak 13x
Mt. Baldy 7x
Mt. Jenkins 4x
Morris Peak 4x
Candlelight Peak 3x
Mt. Langley 3x
Mt. Muir 3x
Mt. Russell 3x
Five Fingers 2x
Mt. Harwood 2x
John Backus Peak 2x (New Peak)
Portuguese Peak 2x (New Peak)
Rogers Peak 2x
Sunday Peak 2x (New Peak)
West Baldy 2x

Mt. Baden-Powell
Bald Mountain Lookout (New Peak)
Bald Peak (New Peak)
Mt. Barcroft
Bennett Peak
Black Mountain (New Peak)
Bohna Peak (New Peak)
Boulder Peak (New Peak)
Mt. Burnham
Chocolate Peak (New Peak)
Cirque Peak
Discovery Pinnacle (New Peak)
Eagle Peak
El Capitan
The Fin (New Peak)
Granite Knob (New Peak)
Half Dome
Mt. Hawkins
Haystacks Revenge (New Peak)
Mt. Islip
Jackass Peak (New Peak)
Lamont Peak (New Peak)
Lone Pine Peak
Mt. Mallory (New Peak)
Middle Palisade
Olancha Peak (New Peak)
Pico de Orizaba (New Peak)
Owens Point (New Peak)
Peak 8675 (New Peak)
Peak 9172 (New Peak)
Peak 9187' (New Peak)
Peak 9468 (New Peak)
Red Hill bka: Probability Peak (New Peak)
Mt. Russell East Summit (New Peak)
Russell Peak (New Peak)
Sawtooth Peak (New Peak)
Scodie Mountain (New Peak)
Sherman Peak (New Peak)
Sirretta Peak (New Peak)
Skinner Peak (New Peak)
Smith Mountain (New Peak)
Telegraph Peak
Telescope Peak
Thacher Point (New Peak)
Throop Peak
Thunder Mountain
Timber Mountain
Mt. Tyndall
Trail Peak
White Mountain
Mt. Williamson
Wonoga Peak (New Peak)
Wildrose Peak (New Peak)
Woolyback (New Peak)
Wotans Throne

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Total: 148
New Peaks: 38

Throw in the 9 times I was on top of Mammoth and June Mountains and the total would be........ who cares.

This was way too much work... The only other time I think I've kept track was when I wanted to do at least 50 of the Sierra Club's Hundred Peaks List in a year. I won't be doing it anymore.

I want to see SierraGator's list. I've seen multiple entries by him in so many registers in the Southern Sierra that he's got to be way up there in numbers.


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There were plenty of highlights:

Lone Pine to Mt. Whitney
Horseshoe Meadows to Mt. Whitney
Mt. Whitney via Meysan Lakes
Willy / Tydall in a day
Main Trail Double
MR Double
Triple Reverse
etc
etc
etc

San news with the deaths of Kent Ashcraft, Wade Burnette and the Korean woman who died on the MR.


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Here's hoping the New Year will be just as fun...

Wow! Quite a list. Which route(s) did you climb on El Capitan?

Richard,

That is quite an extensive list of climbs. I don't think I took my dog for walk that many times. How many Clif Bars do you go through in a year?

Those state highpoints are fun - it's great seeing other parts of the country while chasing the highpoints. In 2009 my state highpoints were Kings and Marcy. Hopefully, in 2010 it will be Hood and Gannett.

I was with my nephew, so rather than speedclimb the Nose, I went up the tourist route with him. We went up the Falls Trail. Very interesting and fun experience. Felt like we were in a petting zoo down low, and then the animals started acting like they don't like humans as we walked over to El Cap. Lots of walking in the rain that day too. It was the day that someone died in a fall off the cables on Half Dome.




None. I like Cheetos, Subway sandwiches and any form of candy.

Richard I'll never be able to come close to your list but my goal was to beat my 2009 list. With yesterday's summit of Mt Baldy my 2009 peak list was 32 a personal best. My only regret was Whitney was not one of them:

Baldy (14x)
San Gorgonio (6X)
Jepson Peak (4X)
Thor Peak (New Peak) & highlight of 2009
Zahniser Peak (New Peak)
Little Charlton (New Peak)
Charlton (New Peak)
San Jacinto 1x
Miller Peak (New Peak)
Trail Peak (New Peak)
Mt Dana (New Peak)

So My 2010 resolution is to up the total peaks, new peaks and get more San Gorgonio climbs in. I'm looking forward to Shasta and Mt Alta with my friend Adam S and Rainer with Kurt W....

I didn't make it to Whitney in 2009 but I managed 119 peaks of which 102 were new peaks for me. Mostly Sierra Club list peaks.

http://www.peakbagger.com/climber/ClimbListC.aspx?cid=1398#09

You are right about it being too much work keeping up with it all.

I got behind on maintaining my spreadsheet (peaks, elevation gain, mileage) for the year.
2007: 154 summits
2008: 120 summits, 694 miles, 268k elevation gain
2009: 140-150 ish summits, approx 750 miles, close to 300k elevation gain.

Personal highlights for me:

I started the year off in the Vegas area and was fortunate enough to be able to move back home to the Sierra in March.
Lots of midweek, after work training hikes and busting it on the weekends.
A couple of firsts for me were doing the MR double and summiting Whitney ten times in one year. Going to try and do the MR double an annual thing.
Other highlights include:
Whitney from Lone Pine
Langley to Whitney
Half Dome


Already constructing the wish list for 2010 and feeling very fortunate to have the Sierra for a playground.

Dear California:

Thanks for letting me borrow some of your mountains in 2009.
As usual, last year I climbed more peaks in your State than in any other.

Sugarloaf Mountain x 10 (1,282, MD)
Peak 2046 (2,046, AZ, new)
Camelback Mountain (2,704, AZ)
Cerro Gordo Peak (9,188, CA, new)
Pleasant Mountain (9,690, CA)
Peak 1414 (“LP”) (4,639, CA, new)
Peak 1442 (Skull Mountain) x 2 (4,730, CA, new)
Meneka Peak x 2 (2,393, VA, new)
Signal Knob (2,106, VA)
Mole Hill (1,895, VA, new)
Round Hill (1,728, VA, new)
Peak 1645 (Rattlesnake Hill) x 4 (5,396, CA, new)
Wonoga Peak x 2 (10,371, CA)
Flat Top x 2 (11,415, CA, new)
Peak 11297 x 2 (11,297, CA, new)
Trailmaster Peak x 2 (12,336, CA)
Candlelight Peak x 2 (12,240, CA)
Mt. Whitney x 2 (14,505, CA)
Wotans Throne (12,722, CA)
Independence Peak (11,744, CA)
Kearsarge Peak (12,598, CA, new)
Lone Pine Peak (12,944, CA)
Thor Peak (12,300, CA)
East Vidette (12,356, CA, new)
Dragon Peak (12,995, CA)
Peak 12525 (12,525, CA)
Cirque Peak (12,900, CA)
Discovery Pinnacle (13,753, CA)
Peak 12369 (12,369, CA)
Woollyback (12,840, CA)
North Marshall (3,368, VA, new)
South Marshall (3,212, VA, new)
Little Hogback (3,083, VA, new)
Hogback Mountain (3,474, VA, new)
Robertson Mountain (3,296, VA)
Stony Man (4,011, VA, new)
Old Rag (3,291, VA)
Red Mountain (5,261, CA)
Peak 6920+ (6,920+, CA, new)
Morris Peak (7,215, CA, new)
Onyx Peak (5,244, CA, new)
Red Hill (3,920, CA)

TOTAL: 62 summits, 42 different mountains (28 in CA, 11 in VA, 2 in AZ, 1 in MD), 20 new peaks.

New York Mountain
Clark Mountain
Edgar Peak
Mitchell Point
Cartago Peak +/-
Mt. Lyell
Mt. Maclure
Brokeoff Mountain
Lassen Peak
Lion Rock
Silver Peak
Cirque Peak
Ruby Dome
Mt. Winchell

And a bunch of HPS stuff.

What is the official elevation of Mt Whitney? I see you list 14505; I always thought it was 14497.

I'm bored at home since I haven't got out since early April. Richard you going to try to break this record this year? My quest to break mine looks like it's on hold. Only thing I've summited lately is the little hill in front of the Baskin Robbins...