[rocknclimb]

DanceswithBamboo with Baring in the background.

Recent Trip reports of Gunn Pk motivated me to head up the Barclay Lake TH Sunday with a couple of summits in mind. The plan was to climb up Gunn on Sunday, and finish up with a revenge climb of Baring on Monday. "Danceswithbamboo" decided to join me on Sunday. The two of us were heading down the spur road by 7:00am. We followed the detailed route description from summitpost written by Redwic. The trail has SEVERAL ribbons marking the way, so route finding was never an issue. The path leads over a ridge seperating Tailgunner and Wing Peaks, then drops into a splendid basin.

Nearing the ridge that seperates Tailgunner and Wing Peaks

Basin under Gunn peak

From here the route heads up a boulder field to a gully under the SW buttress. Some quick scrambling led us another talus field to traverse.

Wing, Baring, and Tailgunner

Some more srambling up to the notch, and we were readyto head across a very exposed traverse.

The notch

Exposed Trail

A few more minutes and we were lounging on summit enjoying the views.

Glacier and Kololo Peaks

Jumpoff Mountain

Tarn

The two of us made quick work heading back toward the "hidden gully".

The Gully

Danceswithbamboo started the downclimb ahead of me, and even paused for a photo.

Getting ready to down climb the gully. (Falling works too)

Unfortunately, seconds after the photo was taken something happened and I watched him tumble uncontrolled several feet down the gully. I quickly worked my way down to him to check his condition. Thanfully there didn't seem to be any breaks or severe damage. However, he had a couple bad gashes that needed attention.

Ouch!!!

We took our time heading toward a beautiful tarn under Tailgunner. I decided to scramble up top while Danceswithbamboo tended to his wounds.

Gunn reflections

Merchant Peak from Tailgunner

Tailgunner summit

The rest of the descent was uneventful, and we were back to the cars by 5:30. Since I was meeting a couple NWhikers for Baring the next morning I decided to pitch a tent at the TH and catch some sleep. During the middle of the night a snowy owl made a visit only feet away from my head. I managed to shine my headlamp on the owl, and see him / her for all its glory. A real spectacular creature. Some breakfast down in Goldbar, and I was ready to climb Baring with Fletcher and Lukerbee. This was a revenge climb for fletcher and myself after being forced to turn short back in June. We made quick work of the 1st mile leading to the ridge.

Steep a@# trail

The route follows the ridge for 1/2 mile before dropping around some cliffs and heading into a boulder basin.

Nice ridge walk

Gully between Baring summits

The three of us made quick work of the gully, and scrambled our way to the summit in no time!

Lukerbee nearing the summit block

Fletcher picking his route to the top

Summit chillin

Lukerbee on the top

Fletcher thinking of basejumping

Fletcher and Lukerbee

Thank you to the fellow NWhikers that joined my company over the last couple days. Glen: Guts and glory for hiking out after the fall. Very glad you were ok! Gunn stats: Car2car: 10:30 summit stay: 1:00 Tailgunner: 1:00 Mileage - around 10 miles Elevation - No clue Baring Stats: Car2car: 6:40 Mileage: 6.7 Another great day in the mountains!!!

[SergioNapelo]

[Fletcher]

Here are some pics of Baring today.

the gully

Index and Persis

Luke approaching the summit

Gunn

Rainier

Mt Townsend and Glacier

the town of Baring

[mtn.climber]

What a great October weekend.

[Jim Dockery]

When I first clicked on this I thought it was going to be an incredible two peaks in a day marathon. That would have blown me away! I finally got up Baring on Saturday for the first time and that steep trail did a number on my thighs coming down. Good job anywho, glad the accident wasn't worse

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Summit pano to west

[LukerBee]

Yet another awesome extended summer day in the mountains. Nice to tag along with you guys .... thx rocknclimb for organizing.