Training Log Archive: biggins

Still recovering from the climbing, but I was getting antsy at work yesterday so I needed to do something. The bad thing is that I feel fine, but I can feel (and actually see) the lymph nodes swollen on the right side of my neck (two on the collarbone, two under my ear), so I'm pretty sure that means things aren't quite all well yet.

All the photos from the weekend.

C • Yellow Vomit 3

Packed up camp and climbed back over Kearsarge Pass. Dropped the full packs at the pass and climbed Mt Gould (13,005 ft). Clouds were blowing up the valley and over the ridge then disappearing, so we were in mixed sun/cloud all day. Then back down to the pass and down through the slush fest of the lower valley to the car.

Climbed Nameless Pyramid (12,100ft). A pretty steep snowfield, a good ridge climb, then some dicey class 3 summit rocks. Hot and sunny all day. Back down by lunch and we sat around camp and listened to the avalanches crash down all the snow from the previous two days. Fortunately nowhere near us (or the morning's route).

Went further in a few miles, and up Mt Bago (11,800ft). Snowshoes for most of it, crampons on the summit ridge. Pretty much socked in with clouds the whole time. Climbed up to a false summit, then had to go down a saddle and up to the true summit, without falling off the gigantic wind loaded cornice (pics from the next day), in a complete blowing whiteout. It wasn't as sketchy as it looks in the picture, the other side was pretty wide and flat. But there were no landmarks and we could only see 10ft, so we were on a blind compass for 300 meters each way across the saddle.