Basic Climbing Class Guye Peak 3/23/13

Team 2

Guye Peak Outing Task: Navigation

Guye Peak Overview: Summit Elevation: 5,168 ft Elevation gain from parking lot: 2,100 ft. WTA trail length: 6 miles (roundtrip)

Guye Peak Outing Task: Navigation

Left Parking lot at ~ 7am Team members took 30 minute shifts as Team Leaders
Had final say in direction of travel

Team did a decent job navigating through the basin

Need to improve on navigating while traveling and communication
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Guye Peak Outing Task: Navigation

Commonwealth Basin Followed Commonwealth Creek on the far side from the peak for several miles
Needed to avoid cliffs on edge of Guye Peak for safety reasons

Crossed two observable streams to get to base of ridge

Guye Peak Outing Task: Navigation

Ridge and Summit Ridge was steep and had several large cornices at top
Required some switchbacking to find reasonable route up

Guye Peak has 3 summits

South Summit is true summit North and Middle summits are within several feet of South Summit
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Guye Peak Outing Task: Navigation

North Summit Used a fixed line for safety Middle Summit Several anchors and fixed lines set up
Rapelled down a gulley, personal anchor/ prussik for fixed lines (crossed 2 anchors)

South Summit was reached by Josh; anchors and lines were set up but no one had time to use them
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Guye Peak Outing Task: Navigation

Descent Started descent at ~3:30 pm Took a different route down than on way up
Used a different stream crossing Ended up having to cross private property

Reached the cars at ~5:45 pm Report out and lessons learned discussed at dinner

Guye Peak Outing Task: Navigation

Trip Summary:
Car to saddle: 4h 20m, 3.0 miles, 1750 ft gain Saddle to north summit: 50 min, 0.4 mi, 450 ft gain Summit time: 3h 15m North summit to car - 2h 20m

Safety Concerns:
Cliffs on side of Guye Peak in basin Cornices near peaks Possible avalanche conditions
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