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Vitaliy M. - Aug 30, 2011 6:49 pm - Voted 10/10
Awesome TR!!!It is great to read about someone's experience on a peak you just climbed! I think mental crux for me was to do the creek crossing via a long log that was pretty high from the water. Falling off would be brutal. Also, since dayhiking it, was difficult to get back to TH before dark.
When I climbed that overhang last year, that was exactly what I thought "not 4th class! no way!" That trip ended before the summit, under a rock, in a terrible thunderstorm. This year was nicer. Since we brought a rope we climbed that clean splitter crack in the right portion of your photo bellow, before the summit rocks. That was cool!
http://www.summitpost.org/mt-clark-nw-arete/741620
Also, there is a plaque on the summit for someone who died. Do you know what is that about?
asmrz - Aug 30, 2011 7:09 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Awesome TR!!!Vitaliy,glad you like the TR. I bet doing it as a day hike took most of the day, for us it most likely would be an expedition at this point. The splitter looks great! One could climb the gendarme head on from the bushy ledge at the bottom (#741666) via the dihedral slightly right off center, then follow the narrow ridge to the main wall and then go up and summit via this splitter. One could even start all the way at the bottom of the gendarme and climb the right skyline of it (same picture). I bet it will not be 4th class either!! Neither Pen nor I saw any plaque, we totally missed it. Cheers, A.
johnm - Aug 30, 2011 7:51 pm - Voted 10/10
Nice Trip reportThe views are inspiring and TR motivating. Thanks Alois!
asmrz - Aug 30, 2011 8:05 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Nice Trip reportYou are welcome johnm. This was our first ever trip to Southern Yosemite and the Clark Range. How much we have missed. There is a sea of domes and peaks there to wander about and scramble/climb on. If you didn't visit yet,go man,the place is awesome. Compared to a lot of places in the Yosemite/Tuolumne or the Sierra, relatively few people on the trail. Off trail, almost nobody.