Winter Palisades Traverse Falls to Bishop Guides!

First Winter Ascent of the Palisade Traverse Goes Down to Guides

by Rob Coppolillo on March 7, 2013

Eastern Sierra guides Jed Porter and Ian McEleney fired the first winter ascent of the Palisade Traverse (5.9 VI) (and more info HERE) in a fully independent (no gear caches), five-day, four-night mission ending March 2. The longest and “biggest” technical route in the lower 48, the full Palisade Traverse spans eight horizontal miles of technical climbing, with six 14ers and even more 13ers along the way. Fewer than 10 parties have sent the route at all and Porter-McEleney are the first climbers to complete a winter ascent.

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70K? Sickness. thanks, Rob

That's the same traverse Micheal Reardon did in less than 24hrs and left Vagisil and huge panties on each summit, right?
Sick Jed and Ian!

nice! that is quite the accomplishment.

i couldn't find a definitive figure for the vert, but another party (summer!) claimed the 70K number and didn't seem totally full of it...but who knows? 50K, 70K, damn, it's HUUUUUUGGGE!

right on, gents, enjoy the snow if you're local...and otherwise, have a good one! RC