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Wow, amazing solo summit climb of Mt. Baker! The beautiful sunrise and stunning volcanic scenery made for an inspiring and enjoyable hike. Thanks for sharing your adventure-your passion for the mountains truly shines through! Count me a s new sub.
FWIW, for pitch 1, you can also climb the bolted line out at the arette. I'm glad you posted footage of the crack/dihedral variation... that looks way dirtier and looser 🤣
To verify, you turned off the trail, SW of Pamelia Lake walking up the old mud slide area where the trees are all downed? I'm looking at it on Google Earth.
@@user-pd9ju5dk5s pack weight not including food and water is roughly 10-15lbs. Training for something like this should include long hikes with lots of vertical gain. I recommend doing it with a weighted pack to better simulate realistic bag weight. I’ve got a video that shows what I brought on Mt Baker for a C2C summit push.
1:00 "Plants grow by the inch, stay on trails" -park sign 7:45 bedding down on the vegetation... you guys ever heard of LNT? Other than that, a cool video. Thanks for sharing the experience.
These are wonderful videos. They will be nice to have later in life as a way of recalling your accomplishments. I enjoy watching them in part because I grew up on these very peaks. This video up Stuart gives me such vivid memories of the long slog up that crappy scree, which for me was 35 years ago. It’s cool to see you moving up it with such apparent ease. The traverse of Sisters is impressive, too. That’s a long day. I like the minimal narration. It’s better that way. The parking lots have more cars.
Marathon complete. Flash backs to the north side of south sister. Guess y’all found the ropes in the dark lol. How was the south route up north? I can imagine how y’all felt lol.
We didn’t find any ropes this time coming down south sister. We had to navigate in the dark and found a decent route but it was slow moving. Very exhausting day, I still think you and I ended up doing more miles on the obsidian falls route 😅
@@drewzilla45 thanks man, it was a very long hike but we enjoyed ourselves after the fact. We didn’t go up to the true summit, We were content with reaching the Crater.
June 20 th, 1977..... My partner Steve was waiting @ 12,000 ft ( altitude sick) : we had traversed left @ Muir & climbed a steep chute, avoiding the long trek right and around on the std route. I was leading Jim ( fr/Seattle) whose partner had come down snow blind on the way up to Muir. We took a break @ the S rim & he looked @ me & said : " This is good enough for me"! Finally talked him into going the mile across BC I needed SOMEONE on the other end of the rope! Had traveled fr/East Coast 2 do this! Made it back to Steve: felt better @ 11,000 so , loaded up our gear @ Muir and RAN back down to the parking lot! We were eating BIG steaks @10 pm , finished driving to Wenatchee and CRASHED at his parents! Btw totally true...have pics taken w/ my Olympus OM2
@@andrewoakoutdoors9353 bro, I have been following you for years! Legend! This was the Pamelia lake trailhead, you will get to a cleared section a few miles up the trail. We cut directly up from here and proceeded to the summit. I’d say the last 50 feet are around 55-60% but not completely accurate.
@@andrewoakoutdoors9353 also I loved watching your documentary on RU-vid. I’d love some to see more long form footage of the bulgers if you ever get around to it.
@@huntervoris7779 Thanks! I appreciate it! Ross might be putting together some extended Bulger material of just kinda unused footage and more raw climbing footage. I could talk to him about it. A lot of it is helmet footage and jumps around but could be something. I’m looking to do some more steep snow climbing this year, probably my weakest area of mountaineering skill.
@@andrewoakoutdoors9353 I would definitely be interested in seeing more shaky GoPro footage, that’s what most of mine turns out as anyway. Maybe we can link up and hit some volcanos together sometime!
Super sketch. Good job on making the summit and down safe, but man soloing as three with a rope tied together is really questionable tactics. And around 38 minute mark what is going on with that belay? You have the biner that’s supposed to brake the rope attached to your sub-optimal anchor. This biner should be only clipped to the rope and the keeper wire of the ATC. I’m wondering if that would have caught a fall at all? Also, this biner is also clipped improperly to a sub-par anchor. If either piece blows it’s going to slide right off the end… please lemme know if I’m missing something, but combined with telling your buddy how to hold an axe right before that no-fall terrain, I think ya’all got lucky. Again, no disrespect intended just stay safe out there
