The difficulty was a nice class 3 and some class 4; giving us an easy enough challenge to occupy our thinking space.I spotted our gear under my large rain fly covering.
The first 3/4 mile was on a trail leading to an old At this point, I was dreaming of open, alpine terrain. It follows a much more gradual incline from the south face of Mt. Mt Langley from Tuttle Creek Mt Langley can also be climbed from Tuttle Creek.
Post by JosiahSpurr » Mon Mar 02, 2020 2:07 am Hello! But oh, what a descent! And one that was coated with ice. I was eager to get my skis and boots off my back, and I was also eager to see Dave's splitboard in action.A Splitboard is a snowboard that can be separated into two halves, allowing a skis-style ascent.
Sometimes, during the worst of climbs, it’s that “negative feedback loop from hell,” as I was relying on slivers of positive mantras and views.
It'll miss him, I see, so I go back to work, finishing out the descent.I bang off the last few turns and collapse, completely exhausted, alongside Dave. Again, moods change quickly.
When someone asks, “how do you survive this high?”, remember that it typical falls on how much desire there is, mentally. We decided the night before to drop off our stuff when we got to the plateau. Scattered use trails appear here and there, but often fade. On May 22 Myself and 3 strangers set off to climb Mt. Mount Langley, California — sunlight breaks through swirling clouds, revealing a giant, winding couloir that drop past spires and buttresses to the Tuttle Creek Drainage, 3500 vertical feet below.. by Andy Lewicky | SierraDescents.com. Both of us must cross the creek and hike out the rest of the way.Dave goes on ahead, leaving me to contend with Tuttle's infamous brush on my own. The next morning we woke up around 7 AM after our 4:30 AM alarm didn't go off. Since the Tuttle Creek drainage wouldn't expose us to much lightning hazard, we decided to hike up to our base camp and hope the weather cleared the following day, as forecast.The sun did seem to be coming out when we reached the trailhead. I planned to get most of my fuel snacking on-route.Dave, on the other hand, preferred a more substantial meal, and so ordered a hearty breakfast of macaroni and cheese.A word about Dave: he is a friendly, earnest soul who seeks his solace in the mountains. I suppose that is how passions are created, eh?We set off from Redding, CA, with 3 days vacation on our mind. It was that time before dawn when the only noise was the creek rushing below, our footsteps, and breathing, as we warmed … We had nearly three thousand vertical feet to ski above camp, plus another two before we reached the snowline in Tuttle.Faced with such an abundance of terrain, what can a man do...Dave has a fluid, easy style inspired by his love of surfing.It was fun watching him arc through the belly of Langley's massive northeast couloir, riding the soft corn as if it were the world's finest powder.Normally descents like these are over all too soon.But this time, Langley's massive couloir just kept on going.We were a bit late on the gloppy snow, to be sure, which would have made better skiing earlier in the day, before the sun had worked it over.The details of this extraordinary day's descent were only just starting to register in my mind.
The clouds which only minutes previously had been gathering now burned away. We have only the tedious business of packing up camp, skiing down the Tuttle Creek drainage until the snow gives out, and then hiking the rest of the way to the car.Dave speaks of the mountains' magnetism, the pull of the hills as a tangible force acting upon him.
We would then meet up at a ridge connecting a divide between two watersheds. This did, however, raise a new problem. I find myself wishing we'd gotten an earlier start. Mount Langley is one of the easiest California Fourteeners to climb if the Army Pass route is chosen. We began trudging through rocky, alpine terrain. Dave, meanwhile, vanishes behind one of the many rolls within the belly of the Couloir. Take 15 steps, stop, breath, repeat. We labored to the last set of pinnacles. Once at the trailhead, we organized the bear canister’s food contents and took a long look at the peak we would be ascending.
This raised the unwanted specter of potential wind loading, and associated avalanche danger.
It was heaven here, and I savored this experience even more so with the consideration of where we just were.This journey reaffirmed the immense rewards that come when I push through my fears. Every muscle in my body was enervated, and I had no room for mental process. Dave and I stopped to take a moment to discuss our route.Dropping directly down the center of Langley's north face was a severe, discontinuous line that would require at least a few rappels.Both Dave and I agreed this was well beyond the scope of our adventure.The top of the northeast couloir was visible against Langley's broad left shoulder.
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