Renewed interest?

[NateD]

Cool, forgot about that ST thread. Steep looking stuff. Way to get after it! Pasadena isn't another country is it? Just a days drive away, no? Partner doesn't want to go back?

[susan]

Nice pics! No water is tough. Many mosquitos sprintime tougher. So that stream in the photo, that would most likely be dried up by now. Is that stream the one .4 miles from camp?

[daniel banquo merrick]

Is that stream the one .4 miles from camp?

That's it.

[mungeclimber]

Dried up in a dry year, yeah.

HELL NINO now!

Humping water sux. Maybe move camp closer to water in an Autumn trip?

[daniel banquo merrick]

I would think there's still water in Illilouette Creek which would be about 2 miles from the base. Doable if you camp at the creek. Any water coming over Illilouette Falls?

[mungeclimber]

I would think there's still water in Illilouette Creek which would be about 2 miles from the base. Doable if you camp at the creek. Any water coming over Illilouette Falls?

Two miles!  Might as well camp in Joshua Tree.

[daniel banquo merrick]

Suck it up lad, you'd better learn to suffer if want to get as old as me.

[mungeclimber]

I'd like to respond to that post, but I'm too busy writing down all my excuses er, um, ailments.  lol


I suppose if we all hump in a dromedary bag or three, we could carry the water back over to 'camp'. Sure feels like desert camping tho.

[daniel banquo merrick]

Okay this is a piece of cake. I'm busy this weekend but next weekend I am available. So, Friday night we drive to the trailhead (all are welcome to ride with me), hike in and set up camp on Illilouette Creek. Saturday we hike an hour or hour and a half to the crag carrying water for a day and climb. Repeat on Sunday  We come out late on Sunday then drive home. Anybody?

[mungeclimber]

Arrrrgh, yer killin me. Aside from not being able to climb from bum shoulder and having to do house stuff, I'd be in.

[susan]

How long does the hike out there and back take mere mortals?

[splitclimber]

are we talking camping sites for starr king or the other nearby domes?

if starr king, we had a nice camp in October two years ago 2 mintues off the trail that traverses under dome biaz and starr king, in a slabby clearing southwest of the forest below starr king, 5 mintues from the creek that flows west down to Illouette. 

37*41'37.97"N / 119*31'58.41"W

I may be back there on the first week of October if we don't do Obelisk.  Problem with October is you can't overnight park on Glacier Point Road so you have to hike in from happy isles.

I can't remember how long it took us to hike from happy isles to camp, but it wasn't as bad as we thought, maybe 3.5 hours up and 3 hours down with overnight packs.

[splitclimber]

Nice line and dome Daniel.  Just found it on Google.  That's quite a bit farther out and looks like coming in from the valley would be really far.

[mungeclimber]

I'm starting to see why there hasn't been a lot of talk about this place elsewhere. Logistics keeps it just out of reach.

[daniel banquo merrick]

If we can't park on GP Road, this dome probably isn't a good option.