WASHINGTON'S HIGHEST PEAKS

with 400 Feet of Prominence                               

Peaks #41-50

Photos © John Roper 2004

MOUNT CUSTER   8630'    P1230

from Redoubt.  Rahm and Devils Tongue poking up over right ridge. Depot Creek below.

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Winter aerial photo of Custer by John Scurlock:  1

PTARMIGAN PEAK  8614'    P894

From SE on Lost.  This was the final Bulger Big Boy for Bruce Gibbs (second completer) in 1986, and Johnny Jeans in 1997.  Johnny's claim to fame is that he climbed every one of the Top 100 after reaching the age of 50.

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SHERPA PEAK  8605'    P405

from SW.  Note the intriguing balanced rock (The Sherpa's Load') on the right summit. Luckily, it is just a bit lower than the left summit.

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CLARK MOUNTAIN  8602'    P1522

from North

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CATHEDRAL PEAK  8601'    P961

East face.  It was Cathedral Peak that turned me on to the Bulger List in 1983, even though Russ had been trying to proselytize me for 3-4 years.  Previously I was a North Cascades chauvinist who scoffed at the silly thought of chasing after the "high rollers" in the Pasayten, but another rained-out trip two days into an attempted Picket Traverse made us look to sunny eastern Washington to make use of the remaining vacation. A guy could get hooked on this place, and did.

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CATHEDRAL PEAK

from Bald

Ron Aronoff makes the long, thought-provoking, step-across move near Cathedral's top.

GENDARMES'/KIMTAH PEAK  8600+    P1040

from NE.  Cosho/Ragged End' is the dome above the central Kimtah Glacier.

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Morning after a miserable night's bivouac, shaking the cobwebs out

before the FA of Gendarmes/Kimtah Peak on June 7, 1970

by Jerry Swanson and John Roper.

MOUNT CARRU  8595'    P955

from Blackcap.  Silas Wild and I had one of the great sitting glissades in the Cascades here, zooming 2500 vertical feet from the summit to the bottom of the slithering couloir in 18 minutes.

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Winter aerial photo of Carru by John Scurlock:  1

MONUMENT PEAK  8592    P1072

from North.  Russ Kroeker celebrates life on Blackcap pinnacle.

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Fred Beckey on the FA of Monument Peak, September 26, 1978.  Fred had heard rumor that there were a bunch of fanatics going around the state, trying to climb the highest peaks, and he figured this was one of them, and that we ought to investigate before they got there.  The Bulgers peaked out on Monument the very next spring, May 26, 1979.  A year after this I met Russ Kroeker and learned of their mission.  Fred's other first ascents on the Big Boy List include these seven: Lincoln, Forbidden, Enchantment, SE Mox, NW Mox, Golden Horn, and Big Snagtooth.

CARDINAL PEAK  8590'    P2070

from NW, Saska side

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OSCEOLA PEAK  8587    P1147

Russ Kroeker, Silas Wild, and John Roper did a new route on this peak up the slanting snow "Oscy Couloir" on July 5, 1984, shown in this photo from the NE.

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