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Past Activity

North Sister

  • Start date: 08/29/2009

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 08/30/2009

  • End time: 11:59 PM

  • Event Leader: Deeter Wayne

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Climbs

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  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating:

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 218

  • Season: 2009

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

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  • Member Fees: —

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  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Climbs

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We hiked in via the Soap Creek climbers trail and camped at 7700', below the SE spur of the south ridge of North Sister. The wind died down in the evening, so we had a calm, clear night, with the moon and stars shining brightly.

While our 5:30 a.m. start stretched out to 5:45, we still beat my best-case time estimate to the Dinner Plate by half an hour - we were ready to rope-up at 9:00 a.m.! While we climbed the SE spur, we watched a group of ten climbers struggling up the col between the Hayden Glacier and the SE spur - their "leader" is apparently not familiar with this mountain. (We later learned that they had left their camp 1½ hours before we left ours. They showed up at the Dinner Plate an hour after us!)

Our time on top was short as we didn't want to stick around for the crowd. On our descent, a member of the other party knocked loose a basket ball sized rock that whizzed by April and me, and bounced over our rope.

Congratulations to April, Lubos and Dan at successfully tackling this mean mountain.

Climbers were April Anderson, Lubos Hubata-Vacek, Dan Koziol and Wayne Deeter, leader.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Deeter, Wayne 541-954-0924 N —
2 Signed-Up Hubata-Vacek, Lubos 541-913-2837 N —
3 Signed-Up Anderson, April 408-410-1339 N —
4 Signed-Up Koziol, John 541-914-5515 N —