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@@FishNTrips1 thanks, Mark!

@@damieng9824 yeah, there's room on the summit. There used to be a whole fire lookout up here, decades ago

@@justino611 if you jump over to the Peakbagger app, and look up Mount Chardonnay, you can find my log from Aug 2022 in there, and my complete GPS track for that entire ridgeline is there!

It should be visible in some of my panoramic shots - and on my FB album of it. It looked like a decent amount of snow on the north sides of peaks along the Hwy 20 area, but the standard route for Black Peak comes at it from the south, so it should be melted out

Thanks, man! Track may only need some vocals moved around, and MAYBE a little synth arp riff in a few spots, to be ready to master! This tune's been coming together super nicely since I threw the Rev2 into it!

Oh, it's actually Symphony In G Minor haha :) Really nice remix and the overall mix is totally awesome!

Can't say I was really looking at the time, but the area is covered in really great sandpaper granite that is just primo rock climbing terrain I heard there was some special kind of mineral in the basin by the tarn just below Kangaroo Pass though, so the spot in the video where you see the little lake... Venture up and explore the talus slopes above that to look for stuff!

Yes, there is one special mineral unique to the Golden Horn Batholith called Okanoganite which is quite rare and found nowhere else. Smokey quartz crystals reported up to 2 feet long have been found over the years at a number of locations, some right along the highway. Great country, thanks for sharing your experience and the MUSIC!!!@@DawnchaserTheAdventurer

Didn't actually have TOO bad of a time on this one... But it really requires going up with someone who knows the early part of the trail. My brother and I went up to try and attempt Blum earlier this year, and we couldn't find the trail after a few hundred feet, and kept brush thrashing for like an hour, then gave up The route from this video was already overgrown and a PIA to go up

I’ve been up there as well. The views are pretty fabulous. Glad to hear it was not too difficult for you guys. You must hike frequently.

@@eb349 I've done Baker, Adams, Icy, Eldorsdo, and Snowking as single day c2c climbs, so when I knew where I was going, Blum wasn't too bad. I feel like it would be less troublesome to do it as part of the Watson-Bacon-Hagan-Blum Traverse, and then tackle basically all these peaks from the alpine, rather than shwacking up from a river valley start

We brought them as precautions for the lower section of the approach - it gets pretty damp and dewy in the valley near the creek, and we left early enough in the day we expected wet duff and slick moss, and we figured crampons and ice axes might be useful for those sections And it turned out we were correct We might not have even been able to do this climb if we hadn't had crampons for the mini-cirque at the head of a creekbed we went up. It was steep wet, and exposed, and unprotectable for a good 50-60 ft. So it turned out to be helpful very early on to have conventional ice tools there

Thanks!

Thanks!

Hahaha that's the next video with fire in it This one I'm just incubating

Oh, I posted GPX tracks for this one on the SummitPost page (and my Peakbagger logged ascent), as there's no "official" TH. If you start from where my track begins right off Hwy 20, then look for my orange flagging tape in the trees, and proceed uphill. It's super straightforward... But steep. The crux of the climb is the mossy cliffy bit overlooking that boulder field at the top of the forest slopes. I have more details and pics on SummitPost and Google Maps, if you browse around for Beebe Mtn

I created the SummitPost page for this peak, and you can get full text and photo details of this peak there!

Thank you so much.

@@DawnchaserTheAdventurer Sorry for my lack of knowledge with modern tools. Is there a way I can "download" your map into my cell?

@@DawnchaserTheAdventurer should I get the GPX pro?

You know, it feels sketchier on the way up than it is on the way down. You do need to be cautious, but the right footholds become obvious on the way down, and there's a steel cable (and some old very sturdy bolts) you can keep ahold of in a couple spots. I've scrambled that gully a couple times, and it's not too terrible. It's better than Wallaby, imo

only reason it took me 3 tries to summit this peak is cause the summit block looked impenetrable from the top of the gully just face-on. This time around, my climbing partner was an experienced trad rock climber with 30+ years experience in that arena, and I let him lead the route. Turned out to be nowhere near as sketchy or technical as I expected, but an extra pair of trained eyes really helped this time around. That's why I video documented this, too. So other folks'd know exactly what to expect

@@DawnchaserTheAdventurer very helpful, thanks for the info.