[MCR] Little Sister

Subject: [MCR] Little Sister
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:29:35 -0600
Climbed Little Sister today (N ridge/aka "Grassi Route"), a highly enjoyable adventure as usual.

The route was in good shape, mostly dry with occasional icy patches in the gully. Descent rappels are in decent shape with mostly new slings. Bring along a hammer, pins, and tat in addition to your cams: this is still an old school mountain.

There's a quite decent approach trail that starts about 1 km from the golf course, and I recommend taking the time to find it. From your car, take your choice of a wide variety of roads and trails east of the creek and head south. Pretty much where the major treed ridge off of the Little Sister comes down close to the creek you'll find a steep bank with a trail to your left/east. This is right around where you start to see pieces of an old wooden penstock and well before the dam. The path is well defined and fairly well flagged almost all the way to the base of the route except for a section of blowdown about 100m up from the creek, and at the obvious "Sound of Music" glade that you can see from town.

Regards,
Tom Wolfe
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