Traversing Oregon's 5 Highest Peaks over 10,000ft (OR)

[cteusche]

On Aug 18, 2016, I successfully climbed traversed (Aug 31, 2016) the 5 highest peaks in Oregon (Mt. Hood, Mt. Jefferson, South Sister, Middle Sister, North Sister) and ran between them. The route was about 150 miles long. I completed it in a total of 67 hours and 23 minutes (2 days 19 hours 23 minutes). Because this was the first such attempt ever, I believe this time counts as an Only Known Time (OKT).

Clarification (Aug 31, 2016): I was only able to summit 2 out of the 3 peaks. I did not scramble up the class 4 summit pinnacles of North Sister and Mt. Jefferson. That's distance-wise very short, but it would have added 1-2h. I also had to turn around on the Hogsback on Mt. Hood because of inappropriate gear for the conditions I encountered. See more details in report.

The official announcement was posted on Wed, Aug 17: www.christofteuscher.com/aagaa/news-climbing-oregons-5-highest-peaks-10000ft-one-push-little-running

The report is available at the following address: www.christofteuscher.com/aagaa/report-climbing-oregons-5-highest-peaks-10000ft-one-push-little-running 

Strava: www.strava.com/activities/684079961

Movie clip:

Route:

[lukedistelhorst]

Hey Christof, congrats on the huge effort! It's worth distinguishing between being on a mountain and actually summiting, especially on this site where FKT times are reported on reaching summits. Cheers, Luke

[Peter Bakwin]

Luke is correct. As Christof's report & video makes clear, he did not actually summit 3 of the peaks: N Sister, Jefferson and Hood. It's good to be clear about this. Still, it's a very cool link-up & maybe others will want to try it.

[Clint Cummins]

Epic adventure and reports!
Perhaps it could be retitled as *Traversing Oregon's 5 highest peaks* since you summitted on 2 of the 5.

Good decisions, though - survival is always the first priority!
And it's one of the nice things about running/climbing - you define the adventure.

In retrospect, do you think it would have worked better to start with Mt. Hood, so you could negotiate the crevasses in daylight when you were fresher?

[cteusche]

I added some clarification re: summits and update the title to avoid any confusion. Yes, climbing Hood first may indeed have been better. Yet, the dark was not the biggest issue. What I really needed was the heavy mountaineering boots in order to do proper front-pointing.