Ride The Lightning

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Summary

Ride The Lightning
Ride The Lightning.

Ride The Lightning (6P 5.9) was our first route (June 2008) on Goose Egg Mountain and we thought it was pretty good. In fact, the first 3 or so pitches were very good, especially that dihedral/crack pitch. The upper part of the route features some loose rock and topping out you realize that you’ve been climbing directly underneath what is essentially a hanging boulder field. We chose to hike off down the gully (climber’s far left when viewing the mountain). Bit painful, very loose of course, but overall OK (though next time we rapped & would do that again!). Nice and accurate topo for this one can be found online courtesy of the FA-ists.

Photos

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Goose Egg Mountain with its two easiest (?) routes roughly outlined: Dirty Sanchez (5.8) is on the left and Right The Lightning (5.9) is on the right.

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Leading pitch 1 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge. The spectacular pitch 2 dihedral looms above - that pitch makes this route IMHO (June 2008).

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Leading pitch 1 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Shirley on pitch 1 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge. Kloochman Rock is in the background. Same instant in time, from a different perspective is here (June 2008).
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Shirley approaching the crux on pitch 1 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Shirley following the first pitch of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Midway up the long (~180 foot) pitch 2 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge. Best pitch of the route IMHO (June 2008).
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Shirley seconding the dihedral on pitch 2 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Shirley climbing the stellar dihedral on pitch 2 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Shirley seconding the stellar pitch 2 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Shirley nearing the top of the stellar dihedral on pitch 2 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Shirley on the final fun moves of pitch 2 of Ride The Lightning.
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Leading the short but fun pitch 3 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Shirley following pitch 3 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Shirley shivering in the wind atop pitch 3 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge (June 2008).
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Leading pitch 5 (I think) of Ride The Lightning.
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Leading pitch 5 of Ride The Lightning (III 5.9) on Goose Egg Mountain in Tieton River Gorge. The steepish crack is easier than it looks (June 2008).
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The sub-alpine views from high up on Ride The Lightning route.
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Somewhere near the top of Ride The Lightning. Probably pitch 6.
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Shirley topping out on Ride The Lightning...this is where you get to see the hanging boulder field that you've been climbing under for the last couple hours.
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Shirley hiking along the summit ridge of Goose Egg Mountain.

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