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icaro
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Jun 20, 2012 - 01:25pm PT
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if you live in southern california and want to do a 10000+ ft elevation gain hike, you should do Baldy (via ski hut trail), San Gorgonio (via Vivian Creek), and then San Jacinto (via tram trail, or C2C if you're an animal). It's a super fun day, and is about 11,000 ft of gain... unless you do C2C on San Jacinto, then you're looking at 19,000+ ft of total gain. I've only done it twice, but it is totally awesome!!!
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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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Jun 20, 2012 - 01:50pm PT
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I've had a couple of big days.
1. Charlotte Dome C2C from the east side. Up the the pass, drop down, do the climb, back up through the pass, then back down. I would guess that was close to 10,000' throughout the 22hr push, but I'm not sure.
2. Cactus to Clouds is about 10,000'. Others have mentioned it. I was WRECKED!
3. I did around 8000-9000' at Tahquitz this last Spring, if you include the hike up. The vast majority of that was climbing and we did 15 multipitch routes in 17 hours: TRIP REPORT
Josh
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Jun 20, 2012 - 03:25pm PT
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During Sierra Challenge 2010 I did about 65,000 feet of ELEVATION GAIN over 10 straight days. Did all 10 challenge peaks and also got 7 bonus peaks. Came in 3rd by the total number of peaks over 10 days. It was my first year hiking/scrambling so I felt like a total wreck after this one! That proved to me that I am in OK shape, so moved on to climbing because it is more fun, has more variety, and more challenging as well.
http://snwburd.com/bob/challenge/2010/
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jun 20, 2012 - 05:39pm PT
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ctc is over 10k?
i guess i had forgotten how low palm springs was
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Jun 21, 2012 - 12:37pm PT
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No, but 8,000' in a day. Mt. Williamson via George creek
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Mic
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jun 21, 2012 - 02:35pm PT
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Any 10,000 feet of gain in one day is going to be a challenge, but I think there is something particularly appealing when the gain is done exclusively on a single ascent, rather than as part of the approach or as multiple laps up something.
The options for getting 10,000 on a single mountain are also more limited. I never would have thought of San Jacinto, but I guess that does it. Some peaks starting from the Owens Valley would be close, but many of those would involve some canyon approach. Doing one of the ridges on White Mountain would have you starting around 5000 feet, so it would still fall short of 10,000. Of all places, you might find it in Hawaii. Mauna Kea is over 13,000 and you could start at the beach, although because of its volcano shape, there would be a long gradual ascent at first. Then you get into questions about where does the mountain stop and surrounding land begin.
Where else could you get 10,000 feet of continuous ascent on one mountain?
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Jun 21, 2012 - 03:27pm PT
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Whitney in a day
is about 5500 ft of gain.
NE ridge of Williamson from Owens Valley is close to 10K maybe bc of all the up and downs.
It is quite fun to do a loop of Split, Prater, Bolton Brown, and Birch and back to Owens Valley in a day. I remember seeing some sh#t attacking me on the hike out after 5 hours of no water. Bushwhack on the way out is annoying though.
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Jun 21, 2012 - 03:46pm PT
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For single peak upward efforts:
Haleakala from sea to summit is just a hair over 10K, if I recall right. Although I think the trailhead cuts you short by about 500'. I remember going back down the last 500' once I hit the road just to be sure, It's really a spectacular hike. Through tons of cool changes in terrain - from jungle to moonscape.
Telescope Peak in Death Valley is another very satisfying route. Start out near badwater at about -250 and end at just over 11K ft. It's really cool to walk up to treeline. Tasty pine nuts along the way. Got stymied on the summit ridge by a weird fall blizzard with more lightening than you can shake a stick at. Love my photos of horizontal snow in Death Valley. Wish I had one of me wide-eyed with the thunder clapping before the lightening flash.
San Jacinto via Snow Creek starting out near the highway takes you from 1,200' to 10,800' and surely there's an additional 400' of up and down along the way. Never quite did it in a day as I invariably slept in, was alone and did it the fall with no snow...thus some amzing steep bushwhacking...truly up there as some of the best bush navigation to be had.
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Mitch Underhill
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Jun 21, 2012 - 11:06pm PT
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My friend Brian and I hiked 14 peaks around the Tahoe Basin a 23.5 hour push once. From east to west: Jobs, Jobs Sister, Freel...rode bikes to Fallen Leaf Lake...Tallac, Peak 9376, Dick's, Jack's, Price, Peak 9967, Agassiz, Pyramid, Angora, Echo, Flagpole. The unnamed peaks are questionable since they were more like high points on the ridge. None the less, it was a BIG day with well over 10,000 feet of gain in 40+ miles. Good times:)
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part-time communist
Mountain climber
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Jun 22, 2012 - 08:18am PT
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I have done 13,500 ft. of gain in 27 hours when I did Black Kaweah and Red Kaweah in one push.
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JerryA
Mountain climber
Sacramento,CA
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Jun 22, 2012 - 11:56am PT
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The 8,200 feet from the summit of Spanish Mountain down to the Kings River is the deepest canyon in North America .Has anyone ascended or descended that ?
The view from nearby Tehipite Dome to the river is fantastic too.
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part-time communist
Mountain climber
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Jun 22, 2012 - 12:09pm PT
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The 8,200 feet from the summit of Spanish Mountain down to the Kings River is the deepest canyon in North America .Has anyone ascended or descended that ?
The view from nearby Tehipite Dome to the river is fantastic too.
This is a seriously cool place, I would have liked to descend down to the canyon when I was out there exploring the place on a 3 day trip, doing harrington and exploring the gorge of despair area, but forest fires got in our way. Makes me want to go back there.
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Jun 22, 2012 - 12:28pm PT
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Biked White mountain, that was over 10 k.
That was another 8k day for me. Laws to the Barcroft lab on a mountain bike
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jun 22, 2012 - 12:41pm PT
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I just did a topo check. We did 10,130' total gain in a day on Rainier on the Tahoma glacier side.
I've often wanted to bike from the Pacific to Rainier, climb it, and bike back (with all gear in tow). Kinda like a Kropp-lite....
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Jun 22, 2012 - 12:42pm PT
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when i hung out with the HPS (hundred peaks section of the local sierra club), i participated in a much-vaunted doo of all five san gabriel peaks over 9,000 feet--that would be pine, dawson and baldy, then a car shuttle for throop and baden-powell. started early, came down in near-dark. it was wonderful to have done it, wouldn't want to do it again. adding up all the gain would probably come close to your figure here.
those in l.a. who really want to train for this go to iron mountain where the trail starts at around 2,000 down in the san gabriel river canyon and ends above 8,000. do two laps in a day and you get 12,000 feet. beware, i knew an SPSer (sierra peaks section, known for "death marches") whose joints were shot at age 60.
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AndyG
climber
San Diego, CA
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Jun 22, 2012 - 01:01pm PT
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I did Snow Creek on San Jacinto in 2005 and we figured that was 9500 ft of gain. Not quite 10,000. But Cactus to Clouds should be greater than 10k as I understand it.
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landcruiserbob
Trad climber
BIG ISLAND or Vail ; just following the sun.......
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Jun 22, 2012 - 01:02pm PT
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-32k on a bike lots of big days in the Rockies & the Big Island.
-24to 25k running/hiking 6 -14'ers in a day.
-4-5k climbing
I enjoyed the slow & easy days more.....
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NML81
Trad climber
N Lake Tahoe
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Jun 22, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
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3 full laps on Mt. Tallac got me just under 10K. My hardcore skiing friends get 10k regularly in a day.
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jeff_m
Social climber
700' up
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Jun 22, 2012 - 02:24pm PT
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The lower West Ridge of White Mountain (from the aqueduct road below the radio towers, not the Jeffrey Mine Road start) is just over 10k' of gain total and pretty much all trail-less. I did a late spring hike a few years ago (with a nice storm greeting me at the top) in 15.5 hours c2c---and then did Lone Pine Peak the next morning as a cool down, 'cuz I'm mental.
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