Thursday, September 22, 2022

The Pillar on Mt Temple 1st ascent July 18/19 1976 w/ Mike Eastburn

Our line is on the left in green.  The line starts on the obvious pillar, center of the face, in bright sunlight and climbs directly up to and over the ice flow just below the ice cliffs above.  We started up at 6PM when the rock fall slowed and climbed to the last rock band before dark.   The bottom pillar's rock was solid and fun climbing never harder than 5.7.  Just a lot of it.   We did a short bivy at the top of the snow bowl where we found a small but well protected cave.  Climbed the 1st short rock wall above @ 5.8 and the traversed left to the ice tongue.  Once sorted on the ice we climbed up the right side of the ice cliff and then eventually were able to just walk on to the summit ice cap and got to the East Ridge line and then right to the summit.








On reflection there are probably better places to climb in summer ;)   We were quite proud of ourselves and the climb until a similar photo came out in the CAJ that year.