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SCREE Mountaineering Club of Alaska September 2012 Volume 55 Number 9 the SCREE Mountaineering Club of Alaska September 2012 Volume 55 Number 9 Monthly Meeting: Wednesday, September 19, at 6:30 p.m. Program: Ross Noffsinger will show video of ascents of Bounty and Baleful Peaks. Contents: Getting Squared away on Triangle Peak The Hills are Alive…with the Sound of Music Hiking in Kachemak Bay State Park: Grace Ridge “It is not the view from the summit that matters as much as overcoming the challenges of the Of Love and Glaciers mountain and receiving the blessings it confers The Sound of Sunrise on the soul.” Peak of the Month: Peak 3390 --Tom Choate officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, The Mountaineering September Program and Treasurer) are up for election. Officer terms are for one year; Board members are two-year Club of Alaska September 19 (6:30 p.m.): MCA positions. Several of the officers are not planning member Ross Noffsinger will show video of to run for re-election. Volunteering as a club ascents of Bounty and Baleful Peaks. Located www.mtnclubak.org Officer or Director is a great way to give back to near the remote eastern border of Chugach the MCA and to influence the direction of the club. If you would like to run for one of these prestigious "To maintain, promote and perpetuate the State Park, Bounty and Baleful have seen few positions (or if you would like to nominate association of persons who are interested ascents. Having climbed over 140 peaks in southcentral Alaska, Ross considers Baleful to someone else), please contact Vicky Lytle in promoting, sponsoring, improving, ([email protected]). It is a great way to help stimulating and contributing to the be the most challenging peak in the park. For a preview see http://youtu.be/MQRs8CJoI5c or out the club, and get to know other members. exercise of skill and safety in the Art and Science of Mountaineering" search “Baleful 2012 YouTube HD.” Hiking and Climbing Schedule Join us for our club meetings the third Wednesday Article Submission of the month at the BP Energy Center, 900 East Ice Climbing Festival: September 28 through Benson Boulevard, Anchorage, Alaska Text and photography submissions for the Scree 30, 2012. Contact Jayme Mack at www.akpeac.org/conference/BPEC_map_06-04- can be sent as attachments to [email protected]. [email protected]. Articles should be 03.pdf h submitted by the 25 of the month to appear in Winter Solstice Flattop Mountain Sleepout: the following month’s Scree. Do not submit December 21, 2012. No leader. material in the body of the email. We prefer Contents articles that are under 1,000 words. If you have a Don't forget to check the Meetup site and the blog, website, video or photo links, send us the Facebook page for last minute trips and activities. Getting Squared away on Triangle Peak link. Cover photo selections are based on Or, schedule one that you want to organize. portraits of human endeavor in the outdoors. The Hills are Alive…with the Sound of Please submit captions with photos. Music Interesting Blogsites Hiking in Kachemak Bay State Park: Scree Newsletter Editor Needed Billy Finley recommends this blogsite, saying it’s Grace Ridge Do you have graphic design skills? If so - the MCA “good recent stuff from a pretty young kid:” needs you! We’re looking for an assistant Of Love and Glaciers newsletter editor to do the layout of the monthly http://verticaladdictions.blogspot.com/ newsletter. The current layout assistant is retiring in The Sounds of Sunrise early 2013. Contact Steve Gruhn at 344-1219 or via Billy Finley also has an interesting blogsite: Peak of the Month: Peak 3390 e-mail at [email protected]. This is a great opportunity to build up your artistic portfolio. http://www.peakaweek.com Club Elections in October – On-line? – click me Cover Photo:. Jill Hodges and Julie Nominations Needed Perilla on Grace Ridge with Peak 4050 in the left background and Peak 3450 on the right. It is that time of year again. We are looking for Photo by Ben Still. nominations for Officers and Directors for the MCA. Elections will be at the October Meeting. For best viewing of the Scree on a monitor using There are two board positions open, and all the Adobe Reader, click on ‘View’ and ‘Full Screen. Scree – September 2012 Page 2 of 12 At the summit I found a small, informal register cached in a pile of rocks and added my entry. Cantata Peak, Calliope Mountain, and Concerto Peak didn’t look quite as imposing from the summit of Triangle Peak, yet I know they’re all longer and tougher climbs. The bird’s eye view whetted my appetite to someday take on some of these bigger peaks. The nagging voice chimed, “If you do, build in lots of time. You’re slower than you used to be!” It was sunny and warm, about 60 degrees, with a light breeze. Looking down into Ewe Valley, I regretted not bringing my tent and staying overnight. The weather forecast was good and it would have been nice to spend a second day exploring that three-mile-long valley. On this outing I was surprised not to see any Dall Frank Baker on the summit of Triangle Peak. sheep, but I did get a nice look at a bald eagle Photos by Frank Baker. One of the reasons I wanted to venture up and a large hawk that circled closer to perhaps Triangle again was to get a good look at the check me out. south side of 6,391-foot (1,948-meter) Cantata One of the most striking things you see from the Peak, which one has to traverse for a ways to get summit of Triangle Peak is the difference in water Getting Squared back up to the summit ridge. The other reason color between Symphony and Eagle Lakes. was that I was in the mood for a long, gradual Symphony Lake is a deep blue because its source hike rather than a steep scramble. I’d forgotten is melting snow several miles away, while Eagle away on Triangle how long the approach to Triangle is -- about 8- Lake’s cloudiness is a result of suspended solids, 1/2 miles from the trailhead. or till, from Flute Glacier’s runoff. On this late-July Peak day, Eagle Lake’s color was almost milky. Rather than hiking past the old shelter between by Frank E. Baker Eagle and Symphony Lakes and heading up the Most of the natural features in and around South valley of Symphony Creek to catch the trail on the Fork Valley, including lakes, mountains and other side, I just crossed the boulder field on the glaciers, are named after musical instruments. The three words that kept rattling around in my north side of the lake and made a long, gradual There are the Flute and Organ Glaciers, head July 25 as I left the shores of Symphony approach that took me between two tarns that lie Symphony Lake, and several mountains: Organ, Lake and angled up-slope toward Triangle Peak at about 3,500 feet. The preferred trail would Harp, Cantata, Calliope, Hurdygurdy, Triangle, were, “how we forget.” have taken me in the same direction, only more and Concerto. Legendary mountaineer Vin steeply and directly. The last time I’d hiked up this 5,495-foot (1,675- Hoeman began naming these features back in meter) peak in the South Fork of Eagle River was Once above the tarns I picked up a small trail that the 1960s when he was chairman of the MCA’s in 2001, and back then it seemed a lot easier. In led me to a pass, and from there it was a gradual Geographic Names Committee. Other fact, my logbook noted that I made it to the top approach to Triangle Peak -- which rises only mountaineers, including Bill Hauser, Hans van from the parking lot in 3-1/2 hours. On this day it about 1,000 feet from the broad plateau of the der Laan, Grace Hoeman, Tim Kelley, Richard would take me about twice as long. pass. From that point it only took 30 minutes to Baranow, Wendy Sanem, and Tom Choate, also reach the summit. Scree – September 2012 Page 3 of 12 I should have taken the direct trail down to Symphony Creek and gone out that way, but instead I backtracked the way I came. On the back half of a long day, the boulder field north of Symphony Lake and Eagle Lake seemed endless. On the way out I saw about 20 people, including a group of about 12 Asians equipped with camping gear and fishing poles-- An old-fashioned hurdy-gurdy. Photo provided by Brent Voorhees. apparently going South Fork of the Eagle River Valley. after Symphony Lake’s grayling. I contributed to naming the peaks and other nearby finally got back to my truck at 10 p.m., bone tired geographic features. and hungry. The Hills are The deep, glacier-carved valleys behind The day had been tiring, but enjoyable. Mostly, I Alive…with the Symphony and Eagle Lakes and the small alpine think the 17-mile trek had humbled me and lakes, called tarns, set like blue-green jewels in “gotten my mind right,” to paraphrase prison Sound of Music the alpine tundra, create a mood of calm and superintendent Strother Martin’s admonishment to prisoner Paul Newman in the movie “Cool reverence as one would experience while By Frank E. Baker listening to a beautiful piece of music.
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