Southern Yosemite Climbing Discussions
Southern Yosemite Categories => Bunnell Point => Topic started by: mungeclimber on March 07, 2013, 03:53:40 pm
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Is available here
http://www.stanford.edu/~clint/yos/goldenbear.pdf
or via from mtnyoung via pm...
small version...
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1257/1351319012_76941ac830.jpg)
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Thanks Munge.
Am I wrong or is Bunnell only in print in the Spencer guide? Probably the Roper green guide too.
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Third Edition Secor is the only mention in a guidebook I found, besides Spencer. No mention in Roper or Reid.
Secor only lists The Golden Bear V 10b and NorthWest Face IV 5.9.
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That explains the lines.
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As in crowds? LOL
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We plan to include Bunnell Point and Mt. Starr King in the updated version of Yosemite Climbs: Free Climbs,
since they are within the park boundary and in the Roper guide.
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Welcome Clint.
Wawona too?
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We plan to include Bunnell Point and Mt. Starr King in the updated version of Yosemite Climbs: Free Climbs,
since they are within the park boundary and in the Roper guide.
admittedly I only checked the index under "B" in my Roper guide. Hopefully I'm not going blind.
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You are correct that Bunnell Point didn't have climbs in Roper, but the valley where it is located was included.
(Sugarloaf Dome on p.187 of green Roper is right across the river from Bunnell Point.)
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Clint,
Any known routes on Cascade Cliffs in the vicinity? I would think Sugarloaf would definitely hold a lot more routes by now, although maybe folks don't bother with the long approach.
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John,
Wawona too?
Hmm, I had not thought carefully about Wawona before, but yes, I think it should also be included.
The distance is somewhat far from "the Valley", but it is in the park boundary and it's pretty far from the
rest of the Southern Yosemite areas also.
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Nate,
Any known routes on Cascade Cliffs in the vicinity? I would think Sugarloaf would definitely hold a lot more routes by now, although maybe folks don't bother with the long approach.
I don't know of any routes on Cascade Cliffs. Maybe time to do one!
My list has 2 routes on Moraine Dome (although they are aid climbs),
I count the FA and FFA on Sugarloaf Dome as 2 separate routes,
and the two on Bunnell Point.
I hope to get up to Bunnell Point this summer, to hopefully get a topo for the second route and locate them definitely on photos.
Plus figure out how to cross the river! :-)
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Clint, are you guys including Hetch Hetchy? and High Country? Or just Valley?
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These are really interesting questions. The guide is going to be thick as a phonebook at this rate.
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are you guys including Hetch Hetchy? and High Country? Or just Valley?
Hetch Hetchy - no. Given the access hassles and short season, I think it works better as a "no guidebook" area.
High Country - not sure what that is.
We are including:
Devil's Dance Floor, Fireplace Bluffs, Cloud's Rest, Mt. Broderick, Liberty Cap, Sugarloaf Dome, Bunnell Point, Mt. Starr King + 2 nearby domes.
Not including Mt. Clark
It's a fairly big project, but a couple of pages for Starr King and Wawona Dome won't sink it. :-)
Eric Gabel and I have been making some good progress on it lately. Still no estimate for completion date, though.
Should know better this summer. At present I'm making overlays to check layout options, and will convert to topos later.
When we have some of those finalized, we should have an idea of how long the rest will take....
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awesome, best of luck on it!
Definitely needed. So many new routes.
Just today I climbed with someone that wasn't familiar with the Reid Free climbs book from 94.
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Contact Mucci for routes on Liberty Cap Clint.
(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd180/larsjohnson50/SoYo/LibertyCap_1.jpg)
lars
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O man I love this photo!
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My list has 2 routes on Moraine Dome (although they are aid climbs)
Do tell Clint? I am planning a trip this year.
Cool info on the new YO guide, which will surely be a welcomed with open arms.
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My list has 2 routes on Moraine Dome (although they are aid climbs)
Do tell Clint? I am planning a trip this year.
They are fairly short aid routes:
2155. Minerals' Manufacturing Plant A3?, 2 pitches, FA: Eric Kohl, Bryan Law, 8/01
2156. Assembly Line A3?, 1 pitch, FA: Bryan Law, 6/01
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Didn't figure it would be long before you found this spot Clint. You dialed up Patterson info nicely. Looking forward to see your work in book form.
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So much rock out there. We just did a big 20 mile day hike loop from LYV to Clouds Rest, then down to Echo Valley and down back to LYV. I'll have to post a picture of Bunnell Point and some of the other domes and slabs out there.
BTW - does anyone know if routes have been done on the "Pinnacles" between Quarter Dome and Clouds Rest or the steep cliff above Echo Valley to the north?
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That would be cool to see your photos. Bummer so much was burned down, though, sounds like there are some bright spots anyway.
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Would love to see your photos too! I'm kinda obsessed with all sierra domes, and I haven't seen any decent pics of the small domes east and southeast of Sunrise High Sierra Camp. I'm sure there were many others along the way. One of these days I gotta just go backpacking again!
Don't know about any ascents on those remote formations you mention, but someone must out there in the world.
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the larger clouds rest pinnacle
(https://nattie.smugmug.com/photos/i-wQ6hNmP/0/L/i-wQ6hNmP-L.jpg)
se face of the pinnacle
(https://nattie.smugmug.com/Vacations/SNOWBOARDCLIMB/Yosemite-October-2015/Yosemite-October-2015/i-DCPFhvW/0/L/151003NC-151003DSCN0323-L.jpg)
unnamed cliff above echo valley. so much more not in view, but check out the splitters left of the arête feature
(https://nattie.smugmug.com/Vacations/SNOWBOARDCLIMB/Yosemite-October-2015/Yosemite-October-2015/i-4h2m6pp/0/L/151003NC-151003IMG_5653-L.jpg)
not Moraine dome. Sugarloaf dome??
(https://nattie.smugmug.com/Vacations/SNOWBOARDCLIMB/Yosemite-October-2015/Yosemite-October-2015/i-5MHF6Cr/0/L/151003NC-151003DSCN0339-L.jpg)
Bunnell Point
(https://nattie.smugmug.com/Vacations/SNOWBOARDCLIMB/Yosemite-October-2015/Yosemite-October-2015/i-T2PLK3D/0/L/151003NC-151003DSCN0340-L.jpg)
Bunnell Point slabs
(https://nattie.smugmug.com/Vacations/SNOWBOARDCLIMB/Yosemite-October-2015/Yosemite-October-2015/i-xRvZP4j/0/L/151003NC-151003DSCN0359-L.jpg)
Bunnell Point slabs and the neighboring slab that I don't think are the cascade cliffs
(https://nattie.smugmug.com/Vacations/SNOWBOARDCLIMB/Yosemite-October-2015/Yosemite-October-2015/i-NR8x36M/0/L/151003NC-151003IMG_4967-L.jpg)
There is so much more out there. There is a little dome below clouds rest and tons of slabs down in the Merced.
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hubba hubba
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Wow great photos! What a hike. Kid in a candy store.
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Love those pics
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the clouds rest pinnacle reminds me of shuteye.
not sure what side of Bunnell Golden Bear is on, but I assume it is the on the north wall left of the slabby area. A photo overlay of it would be cool.
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:) Great pics! Thanks for sharing! The one looks like Sugarloaf to me, and I believe those are indeed the Cascade Cliffs in the other shot. East face of Bunnel looks to have the steepest terrain, but haven't heard about any routes over there.
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Man, that third photo down looks rad!
Thanks for the geo-porn!