shoes on North Nesakwatch Spire

[dirtyfloat]

Hi yall

Found some rock shoes on top of North Nesakwatch Spire yesterday, Aug 21. If anybody left them up there recently drop me a note with the make and size.

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[Sang]

Not my shoes but a few questions if I may. Did you do the Southwest ridge of N Nesakwatch? How was it? Fun? Long huff up there? Also, any updates on the Slesse Pocket Glacier, is it passable?

Thx

[Mike Teschke]

Haha, Those are mine, I realized when I got back to camp that they weren't in my pack.

[dirtyfloat]

I did the south ridge, the scramble (and descent) route. It wasn't particularly good, it's very grubbing getting up to the ridge, and then you don't really stay on the ridge for that long - you wind up moving to the east side and going up some blocky stuff. But the views are great - Slesse, Baker, Border peaks, Shuksan. Very cool.

The walk up is pretty burly. It's a steep valley. I slept on this huge rock just west of the spires and it's a great bivy spot. Wish I'd had a tent or a bivy sack though, it was chilly.

The pocket glacier on Slesse is still there, it has pulled back pretty high and was very rough looking.

Now a question for you, or anyone else who might be reading. Is there a clear etiquette for finding, for example, an obviously forgotten pair of shoes on a summit? I hesitated, then figured I would grab the stuff and post a note here and on CC. But of course it's possible somebody missed this, or doesn't do the internet thing, and they tried to day trip it today to get their shoes, and now they're just bummed.

[Mike Teschke]

I did the Soutwest Ridge route (5.9?) Took us 9 pitches though we could have done it in 8 pretty easilly. I was being cautious on a couple belays that I could have stretched out in hind sight. It was fun, mostly good cracks and probably 5 of the pitches contain some fun 5.8 climbing with a couple 5.9 moves. It was more sustained than I was expecting after looking at it on the hike up. The descent down the South ridge is pretty chill with an optional rappel at the bottom if down climbing the easy 5th (4th?) is not your thing.
The hike up to the sweet bivy boulders is steep. I think it's in the 103 hikes book?