Full trip report:
http://stevensong.com/mount-tantalushttp://stevensong.com/zenith-mountainhttp://stevensong.com/pelion-mountainhttp://stevensong.com/ossa-mountain
I don't know if it's possible to link the 4 major peaks on northern Tantalus Range in a single go but let's try. Finding partners is the toughest part and eventually I did gather a group but we only had 3 days so decided to skip the first day by choppering in. It's cheap..
Day 1 we climbed Tantalus via north ridge. I had previous spent a day researching and talking to people to put together this line and it worked out beautifully. It's not easy but not technically difficult. You need to be a mountaineer to do it but don't need to be a rock climber.
Day 2 we hiked up Zenith, traversed down, up and over Pelion (NE - SW) that involves 2 rappels off the unknown SW Face. Down the unknown south glacier and linked up with Ossa's scramble route. Ascended Ossa at sunset and camped on its west ridge.
Day 3 was a whooping 2200m cumulative descent down to sea level via Sigurd Creek. The bridge's out but river crossing wasn't a problem. Tired, but worth it. Took 1000 photos and that explains something...
Tantalus seems like the Mount Shuksan of south BC, but even more impressive looking and difficult. We had a great view of it from Garibaldi. Thanks for sharing the photos and story.
Yep that's what I was thinking too.
The profile of Tantalus also resembles Mt. Victoria in Rockies, but the overall challenge of Tantalus equals to Victoria and Shuksan combined, IMO.
Steven, you are absolutely killing it this summer. Nice pics, though for some reason they don't enlarge much when I click on them (only griping since they're great pics and I wanna see larger versions of them...!)
One could say that Matier is the Shuksan of BC, since they are both 9,131' high.
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