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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 3, 2015 - 09:27pm PT
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What is the hardest summit to reach in each state that has significant summits in each state. For instance I would have to go with Hairy Pin in South Dakota which used to be Vertigo, but since a new well protected trad route was put up on it last year it lost its status.
Wyoming Lost Temple Spire? 10a 1000ft route in the Winds
Montana. Humbug Spires the Wedge?
Colorado?
Utah?
Idaho?
Oregon?
Washington?
California- Lembert Dome
New York
Alaska
Louisiana
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Mt Borah, the tallest peak in Idaho has some fun little 4th class bits. If snow is icy it could be very challenging.
Some peaks in Montana like stacked dinner plates with grizzly bears on the approach.
Everything in California is pretty easy unless you contrive challenging route, but then it becomes a route not a summit.
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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Britton Hill, Florida. Not so hard from most approaches.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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California: castle rock spire. Easiest way up is 11b.
It's a summit but if you mean mountain then...?
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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NY - Allen Mtn. Thicketeering at its best!
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Alaska ..hard to say for sure ..probably hasn't been climbed.
Among reasonably popular or well known anyway. Devils thumb would be a candidate. Mt. Hunter/Beguya, Huntington, Deborah. Something in the Kitchatnas or Arrigetch (shot tower?) perhaps.
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Eagle Mountain. Minnesota's highest point. Simply cuz it's so out there. ;-)
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norm larson
climber
wilson, wyoming
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Wyoming..Lost Temple Spire is right up on the list. Interesting to see if anyone comes up with a more difficult one. Probably should be a prominent feature not a smaller pinnacle.
Utah.. Texas Tower?...
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Wheeler Peak, NM. It's the highest, and can be had by a trail, but if you leave from the ski area, it's a 16 mile day, so still solid!!
Cabezon Peak, NM. No way up that doesn't require the use of hands. But of course there's lots of minor stuff like that.
Now, the hardest summit? That's a whole 'nother smoke! Something in the Organs that's technical to get to the top of. Probably a number of obscure peaks that are way off the radar.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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One of the scariest high points is Delaware......very dangerous intersection.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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The high point of North Dakota is White Butte, 3,506 ft. I think it would be quite extreme in January.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Castle Rock Spire, Lost Arrow, Higher Cathedral Spire all come to mind for California, but what about Spider Rock for Arizona? In addition to technical difficulty, there's a very high Law Enforcement Factor.
John
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Mr. Rogers
climber
The Land of Make-Believe
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NY - Allen Mtn. Thicketeering at its best!
Allen is a damn good choice. I think I tried to climb that one three times when I was a teenager, and succeeded once. (of course, for some reason we were approaching it from the south...)
It's either that, or some no-name bump miles of vicious thrashing from any road or trail.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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One of the scariest high points is Delaware......very dangerous intersection.
Actually kinda had a close call near there...climbed some obscure slab on Mount Tammany...topped out around dusk. On the trail on the way down, didn't notice an enormous copperhead stretched out. Big fella took a swipe at me and missed my bare calf.
What's Tammany...technically in New Jersey? Get's my vote. Ha ha.
Utah has some whacky hard summits. Zion with Altar of Sacrifice and Towers of the Virgin, Mountain of Mystery, etc. Very seldom scene or climbed terrain. Not most folks' cup of tea. Tatow Knob? Texas Tower? Some of those teetering piles of choss at the Fishers?
Idaho...Rusty Nail?
Montana has some remote technical stuff too. The Wedge in the Humbugs pretty commonly done. The Bear's Tooth? North Peak of Hilgard? Etc.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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I think "hardest" should encompass overall logistics, not just technical climbing crux. In California, it should be something that requires a long approach in high clearance 4x4 or maybe a boat, then a long hike with bushwalking, then the tough climbing as the easiest way to the summit.
Castle Rock Spire might be a contender. But something with a 25-30 mile bushwhack approach, deathly dinner plate stacks to a cruxy pinnacle would be cool to know about.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Not shure if this counts but @ some kind of hard 10 it's the hardest summit that I know of in VT?
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christoph benells
Trad climber
Tahoma, Ca
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oregon- mt. jefferson
washington- mox peaks
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Even I've been to the top of Texas Tower. I'm betting that hardest summit to attain in Utah is something only Crusher knows!
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Dix Mt.,Adirondacks,NY.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Middle Kichatna Spire......hardest summit in Alaska and, likely, North America. At 8800 and change it's less than half as high as the Pig (Denali). Just shows the best things often come in small packages.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Lizard Head is generally considered the most difficult in CO . . . the definition of summit is the variable.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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As far as proper, prominent summits that require technical climbing-
Crestone Needle, CO
Baboquivari, AZ
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Travis Haussener
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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"Obtainable summits/purely hiking-scrambling" N and S Thunder Peaks are pretty elusive for being accessible to 1.5 million local residents on the Wasatch front.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Serra V Tami?
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Hardest "really good" summit to reach.
Based on answers so far, looks from this chair to be:
Alaska - Middle Kitchatna Spire
Wyoming - Lost Temple Spire
Arizona - Spider Rock
Utah - Texas Tower
California - Castle Rock Spire
And as for New Mexico, I propose Shiprock.
Anyone done all those? Bet even Donini can't make the claim. But if he can, I am sure we will hear from him!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Utah - Texas Tower looks fairly tough, but Zeus with mandatory 5.11R could be a contender.
Arizona - both Spider Rock and Totem Pole are similarly hard and illegal.
Todd Gordon's likely unrepeated Tse-n-tytl mesa next to Spider Rock is also hard and illegal.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/835308/Tse-n-t'ytl
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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Hardest named peak to summit in Idaho is probably North Raker A2. Beckey told me the hardest summit in the North Cascades was Burgundy Spire 5.8-9. In Oregon, it's probably Mt. Washington, Three Fingered Jack or Mt Jefferson, all easy 5th class - and not including rock spires like Monkey Face, Turkey Monster, or Stein's Pillar.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Granite Creek Spire aka the Darth Vader Tower is harder than Castle Rock Spire. Easiest route is runout on 5.9ish terrain. Approach is much harder than one to CRS.
Lost Arrow, Higher Cathedral Spire all come to mind for California
Hahahhahahahaha. Those are like quarter of a day supertopo adventures.
Hardest must have a very complicated long approach, very difficult climbing on the easiest route and maybe objective danger that would make it not accessible for general public. CRS is likely the hardest very desired CA summit.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2015 - 10:09am PT
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Hey Tami I did not mean to leave out the provinces as well. What is the hardest summit in Manitoba?
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Sep 4, 2015 - 10:28am PT
One of the scariest high points is Delaware......very dangerous intersection.
Yeah. These guys had a horrifying ascent.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Hardest must have a very complicated long approach, very difficult climbing on the easiest route and maybe objective danger that would make it not accessible for general public. CRS is likely the hardest very desired CA summit.
I surrender, Vitaliy. You're right, given your criteria. My list was thinking in historical terms, although I probably should have started with Half Dome, i.e. Half Dome, Higher Cathedral Spire, Lost Arrow, Castle Rock Spire.
John
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