|
bobby_s
Apr 20, 2004, 3:19 AM
Post #1 of 6
(2615 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Apr 20, 2004
Posts: 6
|
I was trying to find route information on the Sphinx. Hoping to hit up some routes this summer. Does anyone have some topos to share. Or websites guidebooks, magazine back issues, etc that have info and topos.
Any info appreciated.
Thanks,
Bobby :D
|
|
|
|
|
cryder
Apr 20, 2004, 8:02 PM
Post #2 of 6
(2615 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Oct 14, 2003
Posts: 391
|
Are you referring to the Sphinx in the Madison range of MT? If so, I have done a few routes up it, but they were all in the winter. It is a personal favorite of mine.
There is a non-technical route up the north facing couloir that is a sick late winter powder stash for ski mountaineering, and there is also a super steep mutlipitch ice route up the far north west face (AI4 - 5). If i'm not mistaken Alex Lowe also put up a route on the south west face that is very commiting and high level. This area is full of Grizzly bears that like to inhabit the meadows and dark forests that the approach cuts through. We put them there to keep the yuppies out.
Best regards,
Nicholas
http://www.montanahomestead.com/.../sphinx%20beauty.jpg
Not the best image, but I found it after a quick google search. I can post some photos if from the different aspects if we are talking about the same mountain.
|
|
|
|
|
cryder
Apr 20, 2004, 8:07 PM
Post #3 of 6
(2615 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Oct 14, 2003
Posts: 391
|
Oops - my mistake - I see you were reffering to Peru...
|
|
|
|
|
bobby_s
Apr 27, 2004, 2:24 AM
Post #4 of 6
(2615 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Apr 20, 2004
Posts: 6
|
Peru, thanks though. Bump this up. Thanks
|
|
|
|
|
innominato
Apr 27, 2004, 3:26 AM
Post #5 of 6
(2615 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Dec 19, 2003
Posts: 121
|
There's decent online beta out there if you do a Google Search, and it might be covered in Brad Johnson's new book to the Cordillera Blanca, but I'm not sure. The hardest free route right now is 5.13a, done last summer; the classic free route is the "Normal Route," I think, at 5.11c.
I'd love to go down there someday, too.
|
|
|
|
|
dlitvak
May 23, 2005, 11:15 PM
Post #6 of 6
(2615 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Feb 16, 2005
Posts: 31
|
Anyone
You can find info in Huaraz at Montrek with Pocho.
Also there is a book by Brad Johnson which has good topo
of the Original route 1985 (5.11)
|
|
|
|
|
|
