What Mountain Am I? (2)

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scuffy b

climber

heading slowly NNW

Jun 28, 2012 - 08:13pm PT

Did someone say NUN?

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2012 - 09:07pm PT

Someone who'd do a reverse image lookup may also be unsporting enough to shoot a fox. But hopefully not a marmot.

BASE104

Social climber

An Oil Field

Jun 28, 2012 - 10:42pm PT

I was driving through western Kansas, out in the boonies. At a dirt road intersection I saw a sign pointing the way to Mt. Sunflower. It was late in the day, and I was worried about having to bivy.

Being the MAN that I am, I soloed it in tennies. Car to car in ten minutes, which is probably a record. Conditions were fierce. It must have been 110 degrees, and weedfall was everywhere.

As far as I know, that route, the west face, has never been repeated.

BASE104

Social climber

An Oil Field

Jun 28, 2012 - 11:10pm PT

I hate rocks up my bum crack.

Darwin

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Jun 28, 2012 - 11:16pm PT

I'm thinking as said above Antarctica. .... and judging from Anders interest in Amundsen, something on the way to the South Pole. Beyond that, I don't know.

hamie

Social climber

Thekoots

Jun 28, 2012 - 11:37pm PT

My top three guesses are:
........Everest, SW face
........Nanga Parbat, Rupal Face
........Mt Bump-on-the-Ridge, N Slopes

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jun 28, 2012 - 11:46pm PT

But,... but,... didn't Adrien Barbeau have two peaks?

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2012 - 12:27am PT

Ding, ding! It is indeed Barbeau Peak, near the north end of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, in Quttinirpaaq National Park. "Barbeau Peak is characterized by deep and long crevasses, razor thin ridges and highly variable and volatile weather." So take that, donini! Barbeau is the highest mountain in Canada's Arctic, and indeed the highest mountain in North America east of the Rubbly ("Rocky") Mountains. (Unless you're a geologist, and think that Kalallit Nunaat aka Greenland is part of North America. It has some high mountains on its east coast.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbeau_Peak

It is 2,616 m asl, at 81°55′36″ N 74°59′12″ W.

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Jun 29, 2012 - 02:13am PT

We considered going to Ellesmere at one point, but everything I could find out about it said "Boring!" And expensive, too. Far better climbing and skiing on Baffin for a lot less money.

aguacaliente

climber

Jun 29, 2012 - 02:15am PT

There is a pretty cool trip report at http://www.icetrek.com/index.php?id=83 , click on the photo gallery and the article. The summitpost pics including the sled pic are from icetrek.

I did not previously know that the highest point east of the Rockies was in Nunavut.

Although it doesn't look much like Galdhopiggen, oddly one of the pics does look like wikipedia's picture of Glittertind :

harryhotdog

Social climber

north vancouver, B.C.

Jul 9, 2012 - 06:23pm PT

Guess the mountain in the background and the year.

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 10, 2012 - 04:09pm PT

Now that the photo has appeared, I'll guess that it's Mount Monarch, and that you're crossing the Monarch Icefield sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Either that, or it's somewhere in the Icefields Ranges.

Brandon-

climber

The Granite State.

Jul 10, 2012 - 04:37pm PT

Are you pulling a body out in that bag?

harryhotdog

Social climber

north vancouver, B.C.

Jul 10, 2012 - 06:10pm PT

Well you got that one quick,yes it's Mt. Monarch and it's 1983,part of the BCMC summer camp. We ski traversed the ice cap and climbed several peaks along the way.We spent the best weather day (there weren't many)trying to locate our buried food plane drops at the halfway point,without which we would be sunk.(GPS would have come in handy.) It took 4 hours to find the first box (slight depressions in the snow where the heat of the boxes melted the snow above them even though they were more than a foot deep.What luck to find the first one in that immense area east of Mt.Cerebrus.Then it was another hour to find the next one and after that we just followed the line created by the found boxes. We eventually found and recovered all 14 boxes for our and the two other parties crossing the ice cap.It was a whole glorious day spent not climbing.
Because of this delay we got caught in a big storm on Mt. Cerebrus the following day and bivied near the summit, lots of fun.
I look at this picture and think what an idiot without a shirt but those were my Wreck beach days so no burning occurred.

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 11, 2012 - 12:58am PT

Oh, sorry - it was actually just a guess. I've never been to the Monarch area, although I must have seen photos. I was hoping to string the fun along for a while, but seem to have blown it.

Actually, I meant to say that it's Ron's Sleds Over Everest team, at their secret training facility somewhere near Area 51 in Nevada. Probably in car 54.

apogee

climber

Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

Jul 11, 2012 - 01:11am PT

Awww, crap....a Repug figured this out?

Least of all, Donald?

Mountaineering sucks.

I need a new sport/lifestyle.

Meh.

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 11, 2012 - 01:44am PT

Save it for the political threads, you two.

And don't forget that Donald has a border collie, and they're laser-eyed when it comes to prey. He's probably learned from it, in terms of chasing down a scent.