Future trips

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The page partly serves to remind me of future trips I'd like to do, and partly to keep track of planning and research notes as those trips start to take shape.

Contents 1 North America 1.1 US 1.2 Canada 2 the antipodes 2.1 New Zealand 2.2 Australia 3 Asia 3.1 Tibet 3.2 Nepal 3.2.1 Annapurna area 3.2.2 Around Manaslu 3.2.3 Dolpo 3.2.4 Rolwaling Himal 3.3 China 4 Central Asia 5 Africa 6 South America 6.1 Bolivia 6.2 Other places 7 Antartica

North America

US

• The Valley
  • Royal Arches + Crest Jewel on North Dome (a long day!)
  • East Buttress of El Cap
  • Steck-Salathe?? try again!
  • at Cathedral
    • upper cathedral spire 5.9
  • Big Walls
    • Zodiac
    • Tangerine Trip
    • Salathe Wall
• The Meadows
  • all four classics on Stately Pleasure Dome in a day
  • the Cathedral Range traverse
  • The Great Pumpkin 5.8R
  • climb West Crack on Daff Dome again
• Sierras
  • Palisades
    • V-Notch
    • U-Notch
    • everything!
  • East Face of Whitney, III 5.6, or East Buttress 5.8
  • Mithril Dihedral on Russell, III 5.9
  • Matterhorn?
  • Mt Leconte, Southwest Ridge, II 5.6
  • Red Baron Tower, Milktoast Chimney III 5.8
  • Lone Pine Peak, North Ridge 5.4
  • Mt Muir, East Buttress Class 4
  • Aiguille Extra, East Face IV 5.10a
  • Keeler Needle, East Face V 5.10+
  • Split Mountain, North East Arete III 5.8
  • Mt Darwin area?
• Red River Gorge, Kentucky
  • http://www.rrgcc.org/classclimbs.php?category=Sport
  • http://www.redriverclimbing.com
  • http://www.kywilderness.com/climbing/sport_classics.html
  • map
• Ouray ice climbing

Canada

• the Cirque of the Unclimbables
• back to the Bugaboos
  • Beckey-Chouinard
  • All along the watchtower

the antipodes

New Zealand

• Mt Cook National Park mountaineering
  • Elie de Beaumont
  • Coronet Ridge, and traverse across to the Minarets
  • Darwin et al. traverse

Australia

• climbing Federation Peak
  • http://members.iinet.net.au/~jnermut/Federation/Federation.htm
  • issue 28 of Rock?
• Ozymandias?
  • http://www.chockstone.org/MtBuffalo/MtBuffalo.htm
  • A rock climber's guide to Mt Buffalo, by Jeremy Boreham & David Brereton, 1982, Victorian Climbing Club ISBN 0-949451-04-5

Asia

• Regional travel info
  • PassPlanet
  • Boots-n-all<

Tibet

• I've already done lots of planning lots of planning, for the aborted summer 2003 trip.

Nepal

• Links/info
  • the Project Himalaya site has lots of awesome ideas for trips in the Nepal Himalaya
  • the company Dad has gone with twice was Holiday Mountain Treks, info@ultimatenepal.com.np, run by Deepak, with the guide Limbu.
  • News on changing conditions for trekking in Nepal, trekking peaks, etc.

Annapurna area

• adjacent to the Thorung La are two straightforward peaks, Khatung Kang 6484, and Yakawa Kang 6120m
• crossing the Tilicho Tal as an alternative to the Thorung La
  • the lake itself is about 4 fours from Khangsar
  • the Schneider and ACAP maps are wrong, the Nepa map is correct
  • involves crossing 3 passes over 500m, and 2 or 3 nights camping, sleeping at up to 4900m
  • snow leopards have been seen up here! :-)
  • http://www.project-himalaya.com/infotrek-tilicho-route.html
  • http://www.asiantrail.com/pages/tilicho.html
  • http://user.tninet.se/%7Eipg289h/fu99/Trekking/Mesokantola/Tilicholake.html
  • if the lake isn't frozen, you have to go around it, and cross a pass to the north at 5300m

• side trip to Mustang
• around Dhaulagiri

Around Manaslu

• Drive to Gorkha, and start from there. It's about 10 days to the Manaslu base camp, and subsequently crosses the Larkya La, a 5135m pass. The route requires permits, which can generally only be obtained from a trekking company supplying porters, tents, food, etc. Barring officialdom, it seems reasonably straightforward to do without all this, with only a 3 day stretch between villages while crossing the Larkya La, perhaps less.
• a long and detailed trip report
• a tour itinerary
• an approximate itinerary to Base Camp might be
  • Gorkha
  • Khanchock
  • Arughat (there's a police station here, which checks permits)
  • Yari Khola
  • Phidim, Deng
  • Namru
  • Sela
  • Samagaon
  • base camp
• Crossing the Larkya La would run something like Samdo (3900m) --- 3-4 hrs ---> Larkya Phedi (4400m, uninhabited) --- 5 hrs ---> Larkya La (5135m) --- 3-4 hrs ---> Bimdakothi (3800m) and Bimtang (inhabited?)
• From Bimdakothi, on to Tilje (dirty!) and Tal, on the Annapurna Circuit

Dolpo

• http://www.green-lotus-trekking.com/engels/trekcamp-inner-dolpo.html
• http://www.tibetfocus.com/himalayas/dolpo/
• an interesting book -- Peter Matthiesen, The Snow Leopard

Rolwaling Himal

• trekking peaks near Beding?
• Across the Trashi Lapsha to the Khumbu
  • climb Pachhermo, a trekking peak, along the way
  • the Trails Illustrated map covers this route
  • there's a description in Bezrucha's Trekking in Nepal
• Lapchi
• Khumbu/Makalu
• Across the Amphu Lapcha
• Meru
• The Three Cols
  • http://home.wxs.nl/~kolbe002/icecmaps.jpg a good map
  • http://www.caingram.info/Articles/makalu.htm
  • http://www.paritreks.com/makalu_sherpani.htm
  • http://www.himexnepal.com/nepal/High%20valley%20alpine%20pass/Makalu%20&%20Sherpaani%20Col..htm
• The Nangpa La to the Cho Oyu base camp and Tibet
• Simikot to Mt Kailash in Tibet?

China

• http://www.chinaoutdoors.com/activities/climbing/index.html
• Kunlun Sian
• http://www.cybernet1.com/himalaya/mustagh_ata.htm

Central Asia

• Burma into Yunnan?
• Indonesia
  • Borneo, Mt Kinabalu
  • Carstenz Pyramid

Africa

• Mt Kenya

South America

• Websites/general info
  • site to order Biggar's book, The Andes, A Guide For Climbers

Bolivia

• Cordillera Real
• Cordillera Apolobamba

Other places

• Patagonia
• Ecuador
• Peru (again!)
  • Cordillera Blanca, from Huaraz

Antartica

• Queen Maud Land
  • Adventure Network International runs $25000 trips to Queen Maud Land, starting from Cape Town
  • http://www.climbing.com.au/australia.php?page=antarctica.htm