Wyomings Mount Hooker Information Wanted!!!!!

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whitemeat

Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 19, 2015 - 04:18pm PT
This mountain has gotten my attention and I want to climb it. I have looked on the web a little... but haven't found anything really good. Does any one have any good routes that go at 5.7-5.11 or A3 or something? I would like to climb something that goes up the middle/tallest part rather then a 5.7 that just gets to the top... I would dig to hear stories and see pictures of you on it! Also looking for partners for this thing, August!

thanks a ton!


PS: I have taken 1 shower sense mind control facility...
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Apr 19, 2015 - 04:22pm PT
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1580577/Wind-River-climbing-Mt-Hooker-info
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/433479/Mt-Hooker-Free-Routes
http://www.jimdockery.com/climbaround/N.America/ShadyLady/ShadyLady.Hooker.html
http://www.mountainproject.com/v/mount-hooker/109362966
????????

Trad climber
Rawlins, Wyoming
Apr 19, 2015 - 04:52pm PT
Check out the Joe Kelsey Book Climbing and Hiking Wind River Mountains
http://www.amazon.com/Climbing-Hiking-River-Mountains-Series/dp/0762780789

climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Apr 19, 2015 - 05:47pm PT
There is a bottom where it starts and a top where it ends.. in between you climb it.

Nuff said.
Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Apr 19, 2015 - 06:11pm PT
Stay away from Wyoming Hookers - they all have the clap and at least one family member who did time for sexual assault on delicate whitemeatkids.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Apr 19, 2015 - 06:26pm PT
Take a fishing pole and a good pair of shoes.
steveA

Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
Apr 20, 2015 - 07:01am PT
Whitemeat,

Glad your interested in the Wind Rivers, but you might want to consider other options, before Hooker.

I've made at least 12 trips into that area, and realize that Hooker is one
of the longest approaches of any area in the range. If you want to enjoy climbing any long route, consider the fact that it is not unusual for the temperature to dip below freezing in the early A.M., and Hooker does not get any sunlight; except perhaps in the early A.M.

For your 1st trip into the Wind Rivers you might consider the East Fork Valley, which is right next to Hooker. The longer routes, ( up to 16 pitches), face the morning sun, and get sunlight until about 2 P.M.

In August it doesn't get dark till around 9 P.M. You can do any route in the East Fork Valley, in a day, without a bivouac.

It would be advisable to bring some type of lightweight, waterproof, windbreaker, since afternoon thunderstorms are common, with hail. I have done most of the longer routes, in that cirque, and you can bail from most,
in the event of bad weather.

Since Hooker gets little or no sun, in my opinion, the climbing wouldn't be as fun.

Ambush Peak has a new 5.12 route, up the East Face, which Madeline Sorkin, and partner put in a few years ago.

You can P.M. me for more info. if you wish.
steveA

Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
Apr 20, 2015 - 07:05am PT
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Apr 20, 2015 - 08:57am PT
Steve nice post. Are you guys thawing out up there? I think Most of the Routes are on the sunny side of Hooker in the last picture. I think this was taken at around 4-5pm and the sun may have just been coming around. We hiked over to have a look at Hooker after camping with Steve in the Ambush Cirque for a little over a week. After getting shut down on a route on Mid Summer dome on our last day we hiked over to Hooker to sample some of the great fishing we had seen pulled from the big lake in front of the cliff. We hiked over Hailey Pass from our camp by Mid summer Dome and it was a tough day with just a fishing pole. Steve is spot on with the Ambush Cirque and it is 5 miles closer and you don't have to go over any large passes. Hooker also has some crazy features and huge overhangs on its East Side. There look to be a 1000+ foot slab on the side facing the Ambush Valley.Steve Correct me if I am wrong, but I think this is the South side of Hooker and the large slabs above our camp to the North.
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Apr 20, 2015 - 10:05am PT
SteveA Chip Chace did a solo route up the front of Ambush somewhere in the vicinity of 'Plaisir'. I was there when he was, in 1996 or so.
mcreel

climber
Barcelona
Apr 20, 2015 - 10:25am PT
Man, this is a vicarious arm chair mountaineer's wet dream! Good taste Whitemeat, I'm looking forward to the TR.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Apr 20, 2015 - 11:45am PT
Hoipalloi has done a couple of routes on Mt. Hooker, maybe look him up?
rgold

Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
Jun 6, 2015 - 09:44pm PT
Here's yet another shot of Hooker I just found in my collection.

WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
Aug 27, 2016 - 11:01am PT
Adam Stack and Tommy Caldwell did the first Car to Car of Mt. Hooker in under 20 hours.

Mutants.


https://www.instagram.com/p/BJjO2l6DzNK/?taken-by=adam_stack
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Aug 27, 2016 - 12:08pm PT
Don't know anything about it other than it was one of Jim Anglin's favorite places to climb and was on his big annual loop / hit list - must be good.
WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
Aug 27, 2016 - 12:28pm PT
30 miles "hiking", 2,000' Grade VI alpine wall.

Not sure of the route they did, but there aren't moderates on it.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 27, 2016 - 01:00pm PT
http://omarsakhi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Alpinist-Magazine-Autumn-2016.pdf

Read the article by Paula Wright, "Silences on the Map."

I fell in love with that biotch back in the sixties when I saw RR bivvied up in an old AAJ.*
Remember TJ Hooker?

*RR's AAJ article is reproduced from the 1964 issue in the middle of Wright's article...I hadn't noticed.
No pic, though.
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