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    TR: "Mounting a Sister", a probable FA on one of the Three Sisters, Dinkey Lakes Wilderness, CA (2008-09-16)
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    Climbing Team: <i>Tad Hunt</i> and <i>Clemens Drews</i>
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<p>What did ya'll do this past weekend?</p>

<p>I went backpacking with a bunch of friends. Luckily one was a climber, and was willing to laden himself with chalk,
shoes and a harness for the oh-so-long two-day hike out to Island Lake in Dinkey Lakes Wilderness.
I lugged out the rope and a small rack.</p>

<p>The first taste of the wilderness: Night hiking under a (practically) full moon to Mystery lake,
roughly midnight-to-1pm timeframe on Friday night (looong drive from the bay area).</p>

<p>The next day, since we had to hike a oh-so-far 4 miles or so to Island Lake, and we arrived at our campsite by noon
(even with 9 people in our group!), we were forced to climb, what with the Three Sisters calling out to us from just above
the campsite and all (oh the horror!).</p>

<div style="text-align:center"><img src="IMG_6289_annotated.jpg" style="width:800px;height:600px"></div>

<p>After the long scramble up, we found something climbable. Some nice fingers on sharp granite, a few hand jams,
and before I knew it the difficulties on the first pitch were done with (about 30 feet up a slightly-right-leaning block
with a bit of a finger crack behind it before topping out onto the prominent ramp). Yo, this shiz fun!</p>

<div style="text-align:center"><img src="IMG_6294.JPG" style="width:800px;height:600px"></div>

<p>As you can see, my buddy forgot his helmet. No big deal since I found him this spacious-alcove-with-a-view to chill in while
I tossed rocks down from P2. Dude man, check it out!.</p>

<div style="text-align:center"><img src="IMG_6291.JPG" style="width:800px;height:600px"></div>

<p>P2 kept it real, starting with pulling over that roof we're sittin' under. After an aborted attempt trending left immediately over
the roof (I couldn't find good pro), I went straight up for a while, then wandered across a blocky ledgy type feature before
finding something else to throw myself at. I found a nice lichen covered horizontal finger crack / lieback / mantle for the topout.
Oh yeah!</p>

<div style="text-align:center"><img src="IMG_6297.JPG" style="width:800px;height:600px"></div>

<p>From there, we scrambled across all the summits of all Three Sisters, ending on the tallest one where we found a summit
register and so recorded "Mounting a Sister", 2 Pitches, 5.8.</p>

<p>Yar!</p>

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