Mountains I've Climbed

Peaks in the Sierra that I've climbed so far...
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Name

Elevation

Difficulty

Date Climbed

Comments

Madera Peak

10,509 ft

Class 2

1972.08

Epidote Peak

10,964 ft

Class 2

1973.08

Gaylor Peak

11,004 ft

Class 1

1973.08
(also 2003.09.14,
2006.08.27)

Lembert Dome

9,450 ft

Class 2

1977.07
(also 2002.07.09)

Kaiser Peak

10,320 ft

Class 1

1983.09

Three Sisters
(middle summit)

10,438 ft

Class 2

1984.09

Mount Hoffman

10,850 ft

Class 2

1985.10

Y
(cast box)

Little Baldy

8,044 ft

Class 1

2000.08.29

Chocolate Peak

11,658 ft

Class 2

2000.09.15

Independence
Peak

11,744 ft

Class 3

2001.06.24

Y
(cast cylinder)

Solo

Mount Starr

12,835 ft

Class 2

2001.08.05

Y
(ammo box)

Solo

Sonora Peak

11,459 ft

Class 2

2001.08.25

Y
(nested cans)

Solo

Red and White
Mountain

12,816 ft

Class 3

2001.09.08

Y
(cast cylinder)

Favorite climb!
Solo

Echo Ridge

11,168 ft

Class 2

2001.10.20

Solo

Tuolumne Peak

10,845 ft

Class 2

2002.07.10

Y
(PVC pipe)

Mount Dana

13,057 ft

Class 2

2002.09.23

North Dome

7,531 ft

Class 1

2003.06.18

Stanislaus Peak

11,233 ft

Class 2

2003.07.05

Y
(ammo box)

Round Top

10,381 ft

Class 3

2003.08.07

Y
(ammo box)

Cloudripper

13,525 ft

Class 3

2003.09.15

N
(left note in
ziplock bag)

Solo

Tioga Peak

11,526 ft

Class 1

2003.10.27

Y
(plastic jar)

Solo

Mount Johnson

12,868 ft

Class 3

2004.06.06

Y
(cast cylinder)

Solo

Kearsarge Peak

12,598 ft

Class 2

2004.07.04

Y
(ammo box)

Solo

Hiram Peak

9,795 ft

Class 2

2004.07.11

Dardanelles Ridge

8,860 ft

Class 2

2004.07.31

Solo

Dunderberg Peak

12,374 ft

Class 3

2004.08.01

Y
(cast box and
ammo box)

Solo

Mount Gould

13,005 ft

Class 3

2006.08.26

Y
(ammo box)

Solo

Sawtooth Peak

12,343 ft

Class 2

2006.09.23

Y
(ammo box)

Solo

Other mountains I've climbed...

Name

Elevation

Difficulty

Date Climbed

Comments

Borel Hill (Bay Area)

2,572 ft

Class 1

2000.12.25

Black Mountain (Bay Area)

2,800 ft

Class 1

2001.03

Montara Mountain
(Bay Area)

1,898 ft

Class 1

2002.03.31

Turtlehead Peak
(Nevada)

6,324 ft

Class 2

2002.04.10

Y
(ammo box)

Mission Peak
(Bay Area)

2,517 ft

Class 1

2002.08.31
(also 2005.11.24)

Mount Manuel
(Big Sur)

3,379 ft

Class 1

2003.04.15

My unsuccessful attempts in the Sierra (I'll be back)...

Name

Elevation

Difficulty

Date Attempted

Reason for Turning Back

Crystal Crag

10,375 ft

Class 3

2001.08.04

Kids pushing off rocks

Night Cap Peak

10,641 ft

(unknown)

2001.08.24

Ran out of daylight

North Peak

12,242 ft

Class 2

2002.06.21

Late morning thunderstorm

Mount
Emerson

13,204 ft

Class 3

2002.08.05

Couldn't find safe route around
final summit ridge gendarme
(shown in second photo)

Mount Morrison

12,268 ft

Class 2

2002.09.22

Partner was uncomfortable on
steep loose rock

Mount Stanford (N)

12,838 ft

Class 2

2003.09.28

Planned water source was dry

One cannot stay on the summit forever -
One has to come down again.
So why bother in the first place?
Just this...

What is above knows what is below -
But what is below does not know what is above.
One climbs, one sees.
One descends and sees no longer.
But one has seen!

There is an art of conducting one's self in the lower regions
by the memory of what one saw higher up.
When one can no longer see...
One does at least still know.

- Rene Daumal

Background image: Red and White Mountain as seen from the Northeast Ridge route.