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DIYSteve
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DIYSteve
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 Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:09 pm |
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I'm a newbie to NWHikers. Here's a link to some pics from the Indian Head High Route, which Anita and I did last August. I believe we may have been the first party to have completed the traverse in 5 years.
http://www.pbase.com/steveloitz/saulindianhead
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Randy
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Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:15 pm |
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Good stuff. I did Saul a few years ago and have had that traverse in the back of my head ever since. Great open country.
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wildernessed
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Living in the Anthropocene
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DIYSteve
seeking hygge
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DIYSteve
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Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:55 pm |
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Randy,
It's a great traverse, and not too difficult except for the nasty stretch of exposed loose third class travel on the west flank of Saul. Even Routes & Rocks, which understates most conditions, describes that stretch as involving difficult scrambling and not suitable for novices. Camping in the seldom visited Amber Creek Cirque is fabulous. Accessing the cirque via an ascent and traverse of Indian Head Peak is not technical (assuming one stays on route) and avoids the hazards on the W flank of Saul. But, the entire traverse is a much more rewarding trip.
Steve
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Get Out and Go
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Thanks for the post and the wonderful pics. I've spied Indian Head from Poet Ridge and Kodak and often thought of how tempting it looked to get up there and explore that west end of the ridge. Your photos confirm it as a destination..... 
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
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Quark
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Quark
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Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:10 pm |
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| BigSteve wrote: | | I believe we may have been the first party to have completed the traverse in 5 years. |
Wow, it took you 5 years? Haaaahhhahaaa! 
The link isn't working for me. Is it my dumb computer, or did sumpin' sinister happen?
I eyeballed Indian Head last summer; was in the area for what I had hoped would be 3 days. Putz in Boots and I did Indian Head (not the traverse) with other folks several years ago as a dayhike (we were camped back in there).
Alas, it was that godawfully hot weekend & I cut the trip short. I couldn't imagine a worse place than on that platey slatey peak in the heat.
I think that weekend only about 2 people in the whole state of Washington completed their climbs/trips - god it was hot.
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
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Magellan
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Magellan
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Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:46 pm |
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Thanks Big Steve, and welcome to the site!
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Sabahsboy
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Can't wait to see what Big Steve will come up with next! Saul Traverse is awesome.
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