Statistics for Saber Ridge traverse, south to north

Oct 5, 2024 · Lead.

Sep 26, 2024 · 1 pitch. Lead / Onsight. Simul’d the headwall in 1 block w/Caber (1hr 30mins). Lots of slab down low; great rock once gaining the ridge start! Went on the right side of the first headwall; extremely runout but maybe 5.6. Second headwall had slightly gritty runout stemming until you gain a beautiful handcrack in the V notch. Once at the upper ridge we unroped and tandem solo’d with Ella and John. Super fun!!! Immaculate rock and exposure/setting. Our roped section was decent… but the ridge proper is special. 1hr 30mins of unroped climbing; 3hrs total from base to summit; 1hr approach and 3.5hrs for summit/descent = just under 8hrs camp to camp. Descended to the east.

Sep 26, 2024 · Follow. Simul climbed with Eric from the base of the slabs to the top of the headwall in one long pitch in 1.5 hours. Then we unroped and soloed the ridge in another 1.5 hours. Approach took an hour, descent took 3 hours. Very fun chill day.

Aug 20, 2024 · Lead / Flash. Phenomenal positions and views, a super quality ridge! Might have missed proper lower slab start position, but definitely happy to have a rope for what we did. Gain ridge as soon as possible and route-finding is cake after that. 4-person party traverse, fun mountain times at their best

Aug 20, 2024 · 13 pitches. Lead. 7p base to top of head wall, simul ridge Soloable approach slabs??

Aug 18, 2024 · Solo. Climbed this August 17, absolutely beautiful line. I agree it's somewhat longer and harder than Matthes. Plan was to simul it but my partner wasn't feeling good on the approach slabs, so I ended up soloing. Even with rope, it would be heady - lots of exposure and not a lot of pro, though the climbing felt pretty secure. I descended down the steep gully just E of the ridge, which was really easy down-ramp barefoot walking, and super direct to get to the rope left at the base of the climb. The hardest down climbing was the approach slabs - though other times of year this probably won't work because the granite ramps will be wet. Found an ice axe on the descent.

Jun 22, 2024 · 11 pitches. Accidentally started up slabs without roping up. Got stuck and had to aid down on a #0 Z4. 7 pitches to headwall (could have been less probably with a bit of simuling). 4 pitches of simuling, could have been 3.

Jun 22, 2024 · Lead / Onsight. w/ Andrew. 7 pitches to gain the ridge proper, 4 simul pitches to summit. 9 hours on route. Headwall was mostly 5.0-5.5 with a 5.7 crux. Ridge was 5.3 or below at all times.

Sep 3, 2023 · Solo. so in love

Aug 4, 2023 · Lead.

Jul 5, 2023 · Lead / Onsight. Optional 5.10X first pitch. What a blast

Aug 20, 2022 · 1 pitch. Solo. Fun route w/ David. Pulled the crux, then roped up thinking the crux was in front of us still, climbed a single pitch and then went back to soloing

Jul 26, 2022 · 15 pitches. w/Pat M. used an 80m to link pitches. simulclimbing on the ridge. good times, great rock.

Jul 20, 2022 · 11 pitches. Lead.

Jul 3, 2022 · Solo. Supported Isabel on her hero car-2-car day (12h 45m) We went creek to creek in 4 hours exactly. 2h30m creek to summit. Solo is a great way to climb this one if you're okay with exposure and route reading.

Jun 11, 2022 · Lead / Onsight. Fun half day with Will! Camping at Tamarack with Mo and Adrian.

Aug 20, 2021 · Lead / Onsight. Wild fires ablaze, climbed with n95s, still an awesome time out, easy to get off route and make it hard down low so pay attention.

Jul 25, 2021 · 9 hours 41 mins car to car. BIG day, great route.

Jul 23, 2021 · Lead. with Robert. did some random 9+ variation up first headwall because off route whoops.

Jul 22, 2021 · Lead. Never too much knife blade ridges

Jun 15, 2021 · Lead. With Andrew

Jun 12, 2021 · Lead. With Rob and Chris. Attained ridge off route to the right in some mangy 5.9. Otherwise amazing. Left summit register. Camp to camp in 12 hours

Aug 31, 2019 · 11 pitches. Lead / Onsight. Amazing ridge line. With will. 3 approach pitches. Pitched out head wall in 4. simuled the whole ridge to summit in 4 long simuls. One more to the east descent gully. Super mega.

Aug 31, 2019 · 1 pitch. First headwall pitch felt 5.8+, maybe R? Harsh. Ridge was almost all low 5th. Better way to start?

Aug 19, 2019 · 5 pitches.

Jul 13, 2019 · Lead / Onsight. simul climbed most of it

Jul 5, 2019 · Solo. Slipped on the slabs on the decent fell about 100 ft hurt my knee bad. hike out was character building

Jul 15, 2018 · Lead / Onsight. Solo next time

Jul 11, 2018 · Solo.

Jul 2, 2018 · Follow.

Jul 2, 2018 · Lead / Onsight. W/ yelly. Led all pitches, linked ~3 before rap, last ~3 to 4th-class/summit ridge. AWESOME!

Jun 29, 2018 · 18 pitches. Lead / Onsight. pitched out the whole thing with 70m twins

Jun 16, 2018 · Lead. Beautiful ridge climb on bomber granite with no one around. A must do!

May 26, 2018 · Solo.

Sep 15, 2017 · 19 pitches. Lead / Onsight.

Jul 2, 2015 · lead most. with pat

Jul 22, 2013 · solo

Jul 20, 2013 · An awesome Sierra Ridge, and totally worth the approach

Jul 14, 2013 · soloed car-to-car

Dec 31, 1969 · Lead / Flash.