Wyoming

Climbing Trip Reports

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Alphabetical List by Area

Devils Tower National Monument

Wind River Range - Cirque of the Towers

Wind River Range - Deep Lake

Wind River Range - Other

Yellowstone National Park

Birding Roadtrip Spring 2008 (no climbing)

This page provides links to my climbing trip reports in Wyoming. Wyoming is where I did my first technical climb (Overhanging Tower in the Cirque of the Towers when I was 11 years old), and since then I have made several multi-day climbing trips into the Cirque of the Towers, Deep Lake, and Tetons, cragged at Devil's Tower, Vedauwoo, Fremont Canyon, and Ten Sleep Canyon, and enjoyed on a couple of photography road trips through Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. I love Wyoming's wild west feel, big sky, and availability of great multipitch routes to summits, so I will be back again and again.

You can access the trip reports by clicking on the interactive map below or scrolling to the list below that.

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Devils Tower National Monument

Summit/Area

Route

Date/Link

DEVIL'S TOWER CLIMBING

One-Way Sunset (5.10c, 5p) TO THE TOP!

Various other routes:

Tulgey Wood Pitch 1 (5.10a, 1p)
El Matador Pitches 1-2 (5.10d, 2p)
Burning Daylight Pitch 1 (5.10b, 1p)
Belle Fourche Buttress Pitches 1-2 (5.10b, 2p)
McCarthy's West Face Free Variation Pitch 1 (5.9+, 1p)
Back to Montana (5.10d, 2p)
Buckspeck (5.10c, 1p)
New Wave (5.10a, 2p) + Assembly Line (5.9, 1p)
Mr. Clean (5.11a, 1p)
Fractal Pitch 1 (5.10a, 1p)
Deli Express Pitch 1 (5.10, 1p)
McCarthy North Face (5.11a, 2p)
Carol's Crack (5.11a, 2p)

1-8. Jul/Aug'14

9-14. Aug'21

Fremont Canyon

Summit/Area

Route

Date/Link

FREMONT CANYON CLIMBING

various routes

2014, 2020-present

Lander Area

Summit/Area

Route

Date/Link

SINKS CANYON CLIMBING

1st time climbing at Sinks Canyon: Thanksgiving 2022 (1 day)

Nov'22

WILD IRIS CLIMBING

1st time climbing at Wild Iris: Thanksgiving 2022 (1 day)

Nov'22

Laramie Range

Summit/Area

Route

Date/Link

LARAMIE RANGE CLIMBING

1st time climbing in Laramie Range: various routes at Kennedy Cluster (1 day)

Sep'23

Ten Sleep Canyon

Summit/Area

Route

Date/Link

TEN SLEEP CANYON CLIMBING

various routes

Aug'14, 2021-present

Tetons

Summit/Area

Route

Date/Link

CATHEDRAL BUTTRESS

Caveat Emptor (5.10c, 6p)
The Snaz (5.9-5.10+, 9p)

CLOUDVEIL DOME

Armed Robbery (5.9, 8p)
West Ridge (3rd) to East Ridge (4th)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

DISAPPOINTMENT PEAK

Irene's Arête (5.8, 7p)

Sep'16

EAST PRONG

East Ridge (4th)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

Aug'23

GILKEY TOWER

West Ridge (4th) to East Face (3rd)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

Aug'23

GRAND TETON

Owen-Spalding to Upper Exum Ridge (low 5th)
Complete Exum Ridge (5.7)
Complete Exum Ridge w/ Gold Face (5.10a)
North Ridge via Italian Cracks to top (5.7)
North Ridge via Italian Cracks + Upper Owen Spalding (5.7)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

ICE CREAM CONE

West Face (5.6) to East Face (3rd)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

Aug'23

MIDDLE TETON

North Ridge (5.6)
North Ridge (5.6) to Southwest Couloir (3rd)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

MT. MORAN

Direct South Buttress (IV, 5.9 C1, 11p, ~1500') + CMC to top (5.5) (apparently V+ for the entire link-up)

Jul'19

NEZ PERCE PEAK

Northwest Couloirs (4th)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

Aug'23

OMEGA BUTTRESS

Dihedral of Horrors (5.9, 4-6p)

Jul'23

MT. OWEN

Serendipity Arête to Grandstand (5.7/5.9)
Koven Route (5.4) to Grandstand (5.7)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

PEAK 11,840

East Slope (3rd)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

Aug'23

ROCK SPRINGS BUTTRESS

Do It For Doug (5.10c, 4p)
Exum Arete (5.10a, 3-6p)

1-2. Jul'23

SOUTH TETON

NW Ridge (3rd) to East Ridge (4th)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

Aug'23

SPALDING PEAK

West Ridge (4th) to East Ridge (3rd)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

Aug'23

STORM POINT

Guide's Wall (5.8+ to 5.10, 6p)

Jul'23

SYMMETRY SPIRE

Southwest Ridge (5.7)

Sep'12

TEEWINOT MOUNTAIN

Southwest Couloir (4th) to East Face (4th)
East Face (4th) to South and west side (3rd)

(GRAND TRAVERSE)

Multi-Day/Peak Expeditions

THE GRAND TRAVERSE

12 summits, up to 5.7/8, ~18 miles

TEEWINOT MOUNTAIN - PEAK 11,840 - EAST PRONG - MT. OWEN - GRAND TETON - MIDDLE TETON - SOUTH TETON - ICE CREAM CONE - GILKEY TOWER - SPALDING PEAK - CLOUDVEIL DOME - NEZ PERCE PEAK

Aug'23

TETON GRAND SLAM

MIDDLE TETON (NR) - GRAND TETON (Direct Exum) - Mt. OWEN (Serendipity Arête) - GRAND TETON (NR) - TEEWINOT (SW Couloir)

Aug'12

Vedauwoo

Summit/Area

Route

Date/Link

VEDAUWOO

various routes

2014, 2020-present

Wind River Range - Cirque of the Towers

Summit/Area

Route

Date/Link

BLOCK TOWER

East Face (5.5)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

Jul'19

MITCHELL PEAK

NF Left (5.7, ~9 pitches)

Jul'14

OVERHANGING TOWER

NE Ridge (4th to 5.2, ~2 pitches)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

Jul'94, Jul'14, Jul'19

PINGORA

NE Face (5.8, 11 pitches)
South Buttress, K-cracks variation (5.8, 4 pitches)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

East Face Left (5.7, ~10 pitches)

PYLON PEAK

West Slopes (2nd)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

Jul'19

SHARK'S NOSE

The Thoroughfare (NW Buttress) (5.6, 5 pitches)
The Thoroughfare (NW Buttress) (5.6) + Summit traverse (5.8)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

SUNDANCE PINNACLE

East Face Center (5.9, 3 pitches)
Northeast Arête (5.10c, ~4 pitches)

WARBONNET

Black Elk (5.11a, ~9 pitches)
West Ridge (3rd)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

WARRIOR I

Northeast Face (5.9, ~8 pitches)
SW Slopes (2nd)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

WARRIOR II

NW Ridge (3rd)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

Jul'19

WATCHTOWER

Gully from Block Tower - Watchtower col (3rd) + West Slopes (2nd)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

Jul'19

SOUTH WATCHTOWER

NW Slopes (2nd)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

Jul'19

WOLF'S HEAD

East Ridge (5.6, ~10 pitches)

(CIRQUE TRAVERSE)

Sep'07, Jul'19

Multi-Day/Peak Expeditions

CIRQUE TRAVERSE

11 summits from Pingora to Warbonnet:

PINGORA - WOLF'S HEAD - OVERHANGING Tower - SHARK'S NOSE - BLOCK Tower - WATCHTOWER - South WATCHTOWER - PYLON Peak - WARRIOR II - WARRIOR I - WARBONNET