![]() (Bottom) Fisher starting up the 300-foot hand crack on Kooshdakhaa Spire, 2014. (Top) Castle Grayskull, also called Kooshdakhaa E4, was first attempted by Dave Anderson and his party in summer 2003. "It looked steep eighty degrees at least, maybe vertical," he told me. At the southern edge of the group, Kooshdakhaa Spire rises more than 2,000 feet above a hanging tributary of the Chilkat Glacier.įisher first spotted the spire in 2013 when he was leading a NOLS expedition in a nearby valley and snapped a picture of the clean buttress feature. ![]() Foster, a mountain on the border between Canada and the United States. The Kooshdakhaa group of peaks is located about seven miles west of 7,127-foot Mt. In my opinion, Kooshdakhaa Spire and the unnamed peak are such exceptions and contain quality climbing. ![]() However, Wacker conceded that there are exceptions. William Wacker, a southeastern Alaskan climber, asserted in the 2013 American Alpine Journal that "most of the mountains surrounding Haines are geologically not good to climb without snow on them." In other words, the Coast Mountains are known for poor rock quality.
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