San Jack Humor

[Perry]

High Rez

[Rick M]

It's all relative but is anyone up for a first ascent of "the Nose"?

[cynthia23]

Great Pix, GrandmasterP! But after enough hours on the trail, I see faces in the mountain even without photo-shop!

Thanks for the chuckle ....

[kevin trieu]

Rick, I'm afraid there won't be any FA opportunities on "the nose" as that's aka snow creek.

[Rick M]

I don't know about that Kevin, I've been up there a few times in the seventies when you could still get permits from the water company and using Robinson's book as a guide but from everything I heard before and since, everyone took the various snow chutes up. If you look carefully at Perry's pic, I'm not sure if "Albert's Nose" ridge route has ever been done or will be what with the ban now on going up Snow Creek for keeping Palm Springs water safe (we did it by getting permission when that was allowed).

And FAs can be done anywhere. I remember when working for REI some of the "neophyte" employees were drooling over an article in Climbing magazine about a new route put up by one of the employees on Suicide Rock. No way I said since every line/face has already been done. In reading the description it was like three feet left and four feet right of some pre-existing routes. And it was listed as a FA with name and rating. So you see, anything can still have FAs on it.

ps I believe in "personal" FAs but not FAs in general nowadays...seen too many things claimed as FAs that had been done previously by climbers even before my time.