User:Patrick

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About Me

On the summit of Starlight Peak, June 25, 2011

On the summit of Black Kaweah, Sept 17, 2010

Climbing Mt. Langley's North Couloir, May 6 2010

I'm a graduate student in Applied Mathematics, and will be trying to keep track of the goings-on of the wiki. You can email me at psanan (at caltech of course).

My favorite activities are scrambling/snow climbing mountaineering trips, but I aspire to improve at multipitch trad climbing, technical mountaineering, ice climbing, trailrunning, and hopefully soon skiing! I also like taking pictures: flickr page.

Spring 2010 trip to Norman Clyde Glacier (click for more photos on flickr)

I have a practically contentless account over at SummitPost, username TheNobleSunfish.

Trip Reports

An incomplete list of mountains climbed and documented here:

• Mount Williamson 2009
• Mount Langley 2009
• Middle Palisade 2009
• Mount Langley 2010
• San Gorgonio 2010
• Winter Mountaineering Trip 2010 (Mount Whitney)
• Little Baldy 2010
• Palisades 2010 (Mount Sill and Mount Winchell)
• Lone Pine Peak 2010
• Black Kaweah 2010
• Caltech Peak 2010
• Cloudripper 2010 (East Ridge)
• Winter Mountaineering Trip 2011 (Mount Whitney again!)
• Mount Tyndall 2011
• Winter Mountaineering Trip 2011 (Thunderbolt Peak and Mount Gayley)
• Mount Russell 2011
• Palisade Traverse 2011 attempt (Thunderbolt Peak,Starlight Peak,North Palisade,descended U-Notch)
• Summer Mountaineering Trip 2011 (Middle Palisade again!)
• Cloudripper 2011 (West Chute)
• Iron Baldy Traverse 2011 (Iron to Baldy w/ shuttle)

Wish List

Things I'd like to climb:

• The rest of the California 14ers:
  • Polemonium Peak
  • Mount Shasta
  • White Mountain Peak by an interesting route, perhaps the West ridge (9000')
  • Split Mountain
• The Little Palisade Traverse
• Norman Clyde Peak
• Clyde Minaret Rock Route
• The Gorge of Despair
• Mount Corcoran and Mount LeConte traverse
• Mount Humphreys
• Milestone Mountain
• NE Ridge of Mount Williamson
• Mount Rainier
• Cathedral Peak, Mt. Starr King, and Mount Clark in Yosemite
• White Maiden's Walkway at Tahquitz
• Easy/Moderate J Tree classics! Hopefully soon Mental Physics, Right On, Double Cross, Sail Away , and many more!
• Bear Creek Spire by a moderate rock route like the NE ridge
• Something big in South America ( Perhaps Alpamayo in the middle-distant future?)
• Plenty of other stuff but I'll stop before this becomes too long..

I'd also like to:

• Learn to ski