Climbing Oregon's Three Fingered Jack Alone

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@jaredempey5706 Жыл бұрын

Great video; I am hopefully heading out next week to try this one and a few others you have done. If you had to rate the following mountains you have done on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most technical, how would you rate them? Broken Top, Three Fingered Jack, Mount Washington, North Sister. As a reference, I thought the Pearly Gates route on Hood was maybe a 3 and Dog Mountain a 1.TIA, just trying to gauge how seriously I should take each one.

@summitspecials Жыл бұрын

I would separate Mt Hood, Jefferson, North Sister in winter/spring conditions (steep snow/ice) from doing Broken Top, 3FingJack, Washington, or Thielsen (scramble/rock climbing) in the summer time when there is no snow to deal with. For snow/ice, the pearly gates or Leuthold's are about as steep as I can handle. The traverse on Jefferson is a similiar danger until the snow melts... For late summer peaks, I would order them in technical difficulty from easiest to hardest/most dangerous as follows: North Sister, Broken Top, Thielsen, Three Fingered Jack, Washington... North Sister takes more mileage and has a higher risk of falling rock, but is relatively easy to climb. Broken Top is loose, but not as steep. 3FingJack and Washington are somewhat loose but have relatively stable summit pinnacles. Thielsen may be the steepest but has relatively good quality rock quality for climbing. For each peak, the areas that are dangerous to down climb are generally easy to rappel. I'll probably never do Hood in the late summer or Washington in the winter. Hope that helps some.

@jaredempey5706 Жыл бұрын

@@summitspecials thanks. This helps a lot. You and your videos are the best for information on the Oregon peaks

@pavelviktor75 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool bro! 3FJ is my favorite volcano.

@summitspecials 3 жыл бұрын

It's a gnarly mofo!!

@MattCookOregon 3 жыл бұрын

This was great. I am editing my own video on the same thing and looking for inspiration. I can see why you made it so long, there are so much interesting climbing parts.

@summitspecials 3 жыл бұрын

Yea I tend to get an hr of footy or more and it can be hard to compress to 20min or less. I've watched you vids too lol ✌

@MattCookOregon 3 жыл бұрын

@@summitspecials Yeah it is a balance, don't wanna be too long and turn off many viewers. That's cool. Your channel has all the peaks I haven't done on videos yet.

@joshsmith3650 6 ай бұрын

I hunt below this mountain and always look in awe knowing my ass will never climb it lol. Thank you for sharing

@summitspecials 5 ай бұрын

Nice lol. Im from Alabama and haven't gotten around to figuring out how to hunt in oregon. You go there for deer or something else?

@joshsmith3650 5 ай бұрын

@@summitspecials I live on mount hood in sandy Oregon so I hunt deer and elk here every year. I can’t wait to leave this crappy state lol. I say that politically. I love everything else about this state. I’m 3 hours from high desert, 2-1/2 hours from the beach, 1/2 hour from mount hood, 2 hours from a rain forest plus the Columbia gorge is only 45 min away with endless waterfalls and hundreds of miles of hiking trails. Geographically it’s an amazing place and one of a kind. Western Oregon deer and elk (PCT and west) are over the counter, but the forest is stupid thick and steep. Eastern Oregon (PCT and east) are on a point system. They take some archery hunts 1 year to get, and then some rifle hunts taking 28 years to draw one tag. Seems to be on parr with most heavily hunted states specially with the predator releases and drops in tags available.

@joshsmith3650 5 ай бұрын

Pct is Pacific Crest Trail

@creeks-and-peaks 3 ай бұрын

What a mountain! How long is the rope you're using?

@summitspecials 3 ай бұрын

Its a 60m rope

@tyronesmith3812 10 ай бұрын

Any recommendations on staying warm during an early morning pre hike dump in the woods? I can never start a hike without pissing or taking a dump, but when I try to at 3 AM it's like 30 degrees outside

@summitspecials 10 ай бұрын

My best advice on #2 is get it over with before you start lol. One reason I love longer spring days where I can generally wait to start after daylight. I always bring plenty of TP, and on days where I head out before 4am or so I will surely end up on the side of the trail. My goal is usually to work things out before breaking the treeline. Being stuck somewhere like Mt Hood above Timberline with people all around half the night and all morning is the worst lol. Grin and bare it! ;)