@hodad924 the conditions were great. Good luck on your trip.

@ thanks! What were the temps like on Orizaba? How long was your summit day? Was the hut packed w ppl?

@hodad924 it was not super cold on the trip. We also did not have much wind. I did the final stretch to the summit with my parka on. Not sure if you are going with Alpine Ascents. If you are, their gear list was more than enough. Enjoy Orizaba

@hodad924 summit day was 6 to 7 hours on the way up and 11 hours total. We did not go in the hut.

@@citiesstreets7158 You're welcome.

@@akikamimi it was a great party. Hope your team did well on the climbs

@@mikegoesuphill5200 All of us made the summit of Pico De Orizaba on Dec 30 or Dec 31 (one of your climbers did it one day later).

@@akikamimi 9 of 10 on our team made the summit of Orizaba on Jan 3. Congratulations to you and your team

@@mikegoesuphill5200 AAI group? If so we talked with some of the people in your group quite a bit.

@farbeyonddriven8173 I made the top of Aconcagua in January 2024. I have a couple Aconcagua videos on my channel. The 2024 trip and a 2023 trip that was turned back due to avalanche danger. No altitude issues on the Mexico trip. Aconcagua had me dizzy the last 1k feet.

@@TheCorporateKindergarten2023 we were there late January 2024.

@ thank you! I am going next year December but still deciding and checking which month is the best

@@TheCorporateKindergarten2023 Good luck on your trip

@@WilliamWitty-j1m Thank you. Good luck at Red Rock Canyon. It is a great place to climb

@farbeyonddriven8173 yes, many times.

@hefnhef1 That is what I loved about this climb as well. So many different things to experience.

@xc031243 Thank you Brad. Hope you are doing well

@@joehook9635 Thank you. This is a beautiful route. We were lucky with the perfect weather

@@Chris-um3se Thank you

@jeremywinderweedle1173 Thank you. I have been down this way twice. Both times with a guide. The guide used a picket on this winter trip due to the deep snow. Last year we went up the East Buttress and rappeled down. There was a small rappel ring just below the top. We did two rappel down. I don't remember the second rappel spot. I do have the East Buttress video here as well. Good luck if you climb this route. It is a beautiful route

@@markconcar7681 Thank you. Temple Crag is beautiful. I hope to climb there someday

@nickb1966 Thank you. The step around move is pitch 3. The move is not too hard. There is a short Crack just above the step around move. That is the crux. Sorry I didn't capture the step or crux.

@ccolagio_ I suggest crampons and ice axe. If you get a cold night or two the surface can harden quickly. We left our crampons and trekking pole at the base of the arete and picked them up on the descent. We carried our ice axe all the way up. Good luck on the mountain

@@mikegoesuphill5200 again thank you for the video and the comments! super helpful!

If you need crampons, you need an ice axe. Period. Very difficult to impossible to self-arrest with hiking/ski pole. If I am on steep snow, an ice axe is always in one of my hands.

@@steelheadranger agreed

@@steelheadranger fair. i probably would prefer less weight - ie, micros+pole conditions/comfortability

@jpetersonx127 Thank you John. The weather was good. It was a little warmer than I would like. It is a beautiful area. I recommend this route if you ever go back.

​@fellowes58 I do thie loop in 2.5 hours. This would have been in July a couple years ago. It can get hot on this trail

@jpetersonx127 Thanks John. C2C is much harder than the easy hike from the tram I did in this video. I did C2C several years ago. Let me know if you plan C2C. I would love to do it again. Maybe in the fall when the desert cools down.

Tickets are $30.95 round trip. You can buy on the website or walk up. There were plenty of people buying walk up tickets Sunday morning. Parking was another $15. Not sure if there is a one-way ticket option anymore. I bought one from the upper tram station gift shop for the down ride years ago when I did C2C. They did not check tickets on the way down Sunday.

I just did c2c again, I know they don’t check tickets but I still buy the down ticket anyway. I believe it was $16 this last time. Sometime getting Uber to come get you can be a deal. I believe there is a concierge or info desk somewhere that will call the local taxi.

@@Smashycrashy congrats on completing C2C. I was also able to get the tram station to call me a cab. Thanks for commenting.

Thank you. We started on the trail around 7am. The lower pitches were a bit in the sun at first. Shade comes in later. It was mild the day we were there. Not hot. Good luck

Thank you. I haven’t tried ice climbing yet. I may have to do that next winter or sometime soon. I am 54 myself. I will look into climbing Moab as well. My guide, Tyler Logan guides Red Rock Canyon in the spring and fall through Jackson Hole guides.

This is a great route. Hopefully the glaciers maintain or grow.

Thank you. Red Rock Canyon is beautiful.

Thank you for commenting. I think all the routes up Whitney are great. No easy way even on the hiking routes.

Thank you

Thank you John.

Thank you Steve. It was amazing up there. Hope you are doing well

Thank you. I love the mountains in California. So many beautiful peaks.

Hey Gary, yes, on these trips we are trying to minimize weight as much as possible as we are ascending 3000ft or 1000m on a typical day. I usually carry just the Gopro and cell phone.

Thank you for watching and commenting. This is a great route for those with proper trad climbing experience.

Thank you. I hope to get up to the top soon.

Thank you. Yes, both Stephen and Kristie are great guides.

Thank you for commenting. The lower section of the rock on Tyndall is not as steep as the upper section. I would have been comfortable climbing the entire rock section off rope. Our guide, Dave, does a good job on safety decisions. The guide went up the snow section first and set up a snow anchor to belay us up. We were not on a fixed line. We were tied into the belay line. The guide would have caught us on belay if we fell.

The roped belay up the final snow pitch was the only portion here where being roped actually made it safer. What happens when there are three guys super short roped to each other with crampons and one falls? At least one immediately takes crampons to the face and all three likely take a non-arrestable ride because the dynamics of three bodies spinning out of control makes it impossible to arrest. Guides often rope up like this to provide mental (but fake) comfort on easier terrain with the assumption that no one will fall and that the fake comfort of being roped will set people at ease and make that fall even less likely.

Was thinking the same

Thank you for commenting. Sounds like we both have a return trip to do.

Thank you. I definitely hope to go back under good conditions

Thank you. It is a great route.

We mostly down climbed the rock and lowered down hells highway.

Thank you. I used the Gorgonio hike to train for the backpacking portions of Williamson & Tyndall and the hike to upper boyscout lake on my Whitney East Buttress climb. It worked well for those trips.

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you and good luck on Tyndall.

Thank you. East Face is a great route as well. I need to do that one someday

Thank you. There are a few technical routes up the East Face.

I used Sierra Mountain Center. They do a good job and have guided me on many trips including East Buttress a couple days after this trip.

That is a good route as well

I have done this route a few times so I am comfortable on my own for Gorgonio

July 4th to 6th, 2023

@@mikegoesuphill5200 thanks for the info, I may head up there in the next couple days, just for a solo up the Mtneers. Route. what was the descent like? I see you rapped the 400, are there rap anchors left behind? any info is appreciated

@nickb1966 There is an anchor in one of the rocks with a small ring for attaching gear. I didn't get a photo of the location, but drop down the rock to the right instead of directly down the snow.. Then the anchor is in a rock on the left. Snow is soft in the afternoon. I suggest crampons for the morning up. Good luck.

@@mikegoesuphill5200 thanks man

I did the east butress a couple years ago and it was super fun, your video captured that route well good work