Entry Moves into P2 Crack (Block is girth hitched with rap rings)

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Entry Moves into P2 Crack (Block is girth hitched with rap rings)

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Top of P3 Belay (Note :Bolted Rap Anchors 20' below, not on route, but escape option)

BD Spector Nailed in to the gully about 20' up Pitch 7

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Sean T.Bowen

Jul 20, 2020

“Entry Moves into P2 Crack (Block is girth hitched with rap rings)”

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USMC FLAG flying for our Troops during CORONA 2020

Here is some approximation of how I have climbed the route Lakeview.Very little loose rock is encountered.

Climbed 9/1/17. See previous photo for p1-p3. We did the middle section in two long run-out pitches. Be careful of the larger loose blocks and smaller choss. Once up on lunch ledge get ready for the two money pitches!

The top out corner has such great stems you won't even notice the view until you get to the top.

My partner and I climbed this route on 9/1/17. You can break the pitches up into whatever length works for you. The first and last two pitches have a preferred (obvious) line. Pitch 3 was confusing at first. We went up right and then left, guessing this was the weakness in the overlap. Once on top going left it becomes run-out but is low angle friction slab for 15-20 feet.

Old Man of the Mountain from what was a climber's viewpoint.

Looking down the fun cracks on the second-to-last pitch.

Looking up at the final pitch. The flake that leads to the corner is visible as the whitish streak leading up and slightly right from the slab, to the left of the obvious left-leaning crack.

After climbing into the fog all day, we finally saw our objective! I was happy that it stayed clear until we reached the summit. This was my first multi-pitch on Cannon and this made for quite the EPIC experience.

The Au Chaval

Old Man engineering

On pitch 2 of Lakeview

Looking back at the second belay.

The descent surprisingly parallels the edge of the cliff for a good ways, before heading off into the jungle.

The first ascent of Lakeview with the Wiessner's Buttress finish by Andy Fisher, Roger Damon and Dan Brodien in 1962. Photo courtesy of Dan Brodien.

The first ascent of Lakeview with the Wiessner's Buttress finish by Andy Fisher, Roger Damon and Dan Brodien in 1962. Note rock slide across the valley. Photo courtesy of Dan Brodien.

Looking down the corner on the last pitch. The flake is not visible.

The view from the final belay.

Leader at the top of P1, taken from the start.

The oh so sweet crack on P2

A panoramic taken from the second to last belay, looking down at the follower approaching lunch ledge.

The Death Zone...Watch for loose pieces of our OLD MAN

9/15/18: Up on 2nd to last Pitch 6, this pitch was beautiful!

Travel along the Pemi Trail until you reach this small foot bridge. It is at this spot that you turn uphill...hard left. I am taking the picture from uphill on the climber's trail, looking back at the bridge.

The first ascent of Lakeview with the Wiessner's Buttress finish by Andy Fisher, Roger Damon and Dan Brodien in 1962. Photo courtesy of Dan Brodien.

The trough as seen in 1962. The first ascent of Lakeview with the Wiessner's Buttress finish by Andy Fisher, Roger Damon and Dan Brodien in 1962. Photo courtesy of Dan Brodien.

P6 (Coming in from Weissner's Dike) just below the Lunch Ledge

Andy Fisher, Roger Damon and Dan Brodien at the top of the Old Man after completing the first ascent of Lakeview with the Wiessner's Buttress finish. Photo courtesy of Dan Brodien.

The Bolted Rap Anchor on the left hand margin of the "ZONE" , end of P4

1st pitch of Lakeview in early June. Black flies + afternoon rain

The descent is a little bushy

Pitch 2

View just before the Crux

View From Lunch Ledge

Historical photo now as this is after topping out and sitting on the Old Man's head after getting caught in a massive 10 minute thunderstorm on pitch 6.

Wiessner's exit corner. Archival photograph that had photo shop restoration.

This is the water channel (concrete) found at the top of the last pitch. You'll follow this water channel downhill (climber's right) until it turns into the trail that leads to the base of the mountain. At the base, it meets with the Pemi Trail.

Pitch 3 (Note Piton right after P2 Belay is "SUSPECT" ! Gone as of 8/29/21 Dave L.)

Quality of the lower mountain woods on the descent trail. If you should have to bail off this climb into the bushes, you'll be greeted with an impenetrable thicket to thrash through until you reach this trail.

Looking at the Rockeneering Pitch 4 (Be careful not to dislodge debris)

Found on the approach trail. This rock was cleary connected to the Old Man at some point, as seen by the glue stain from efforts to hold it together.

Top of P3 Belay (Note :Bolted Rap Anchors 20' below, not on route, but escape option)

Entry Moves into P2 Crack (Block is girth hitched with rap rings)

BD Spector Nailed in to the gully about 20' up Pitch 7

Beginning of P2 (Fixed thread above belay)

Stoked to finish this awesome route!

Mark S below the last Pitch

Belay Below the Weissner Corner

P2 Crack (Note: Belay atop P2 at the end of crack is missing pitons)

Looking up and right from the second to last belay. (You don't climb this.) I remember looking at it and thinking "Isn't that interesting how that almost looks man-made?"

P6 (Along the Weissner Dike)

Abstract from Environmental & Engineering Geoscience February 2005, Volume XI, Number 1 issue published by the Geological Society of America. Title: Stability & Collapse, Old Man of the Mountain, Franconia Notch, NH. See 1st comment for more info.

Top of P1 with Tom