I recently returned from completing the Tuttle Creek to Mount Langley mountaineering route.
I would have to say the route description for this climb on this website is spot-on. If you familiarize yourself with the report and the photos it is pretty hard to get lost going up.
One update: the dirt road currently does not go as far as it did when the original report was written. It ends about a half mile sooner and a couple hundred feet lower than it did in 2007.
Also, most of the reports spend most of their time describing the accent, rightly so, but I managed to get lost during the decent, and I even had to bivy while completely off route in the wrong drainage.
Mainly this was due to me being extremely tired, and being an idiot, but there is some route finding that needs to be done on the way down.
For me the problem was finding the top of the Class 3 and Class 4 section that is pretty easy to find when going up.
When descending you approach this section while on a very open gradual decline with many options of decent. The problem is you need to find the exact top of the Class 3 Class 4 section and at least for me this was hard to do. I wish there would've been some cairns.
On the way up, once you get to the top of the crux section be sure to take good mental notes what this looks like so you find it on the way back.
As mentioned, I was extremely tired, and even though I had a map, I thought I had somehow walked too far, when in fact I hadn't walked far enough.
I thought I had found some sort of alternate down climb, when in fact I descended into completely the wrong drainage and I ended up having to bivy in a very tight and over-grown canyon.
It was miserable.
Just be sure you can find the top of the class 3 and class 4 crux section from the top and you will be fine.
Myt1 - Aug 11, 2020 9:59 am - Hasn't voted
July, 2020, UpdateI recently returned from completing the Tuttle Creek to Mount Langley mountaineering route.
I would have to say the route description for this climb on this website is spot-on. If you familiarize yourself with the report and the photos it is pretty hard to get lost going up.
One update: the dirt road currently does not go as far as it did when the original report was written. It ends about a half mile sooner and a couple hundred feet lower than it did in 2007.
Also, most of the reports spend most of their time describing the accent, rightly so, but I managed to get lost during the decent, and I even had to bivy while completely off route in the wrong drainage.
Mainly this was due to me being extremely tired, and being an idiot, but there is some route finding that needs to be done on the way down.
For me the problem was finding the top of the Class 3 and Class 4 section that is pretty easy to find when going up.
When descending you approach this section while on a very open gradual decline with many options of decent. The problem is you need to find the exact top of the Class 3 Class 4 section and at least for me this was hard to do. I wish there would've been some cairns.
On the way up, once you get to the top of the crux section be sure to take good mental notes what this looks like so you find it on the way back.
As mentioned, I was extremely tired, and even though I had a map, I thought I had somehow walked too far, when in fact I hadn't walked far enough.
I thought I had found some sort of alternate down climb, when in fact I descended into completely the wrong drainage and I ended up having to bivy in a very tight and over-grown canyon.
It was miserable.
Just be sure you can find the top of the class 3 and class 4 crux section from the top and you will be fine.