Dan Beard, Mooses Tooth and Rooster Comb, 1978. Jay Kerr, Lee
Dan Beard, M ooses T ooth and Rooster Com b, 1978 . Jay K err, Lee Anderson, John H arris and I flew to the R uth A m phitheater on about A pril 1, 1978. We left im m ediately for our first objective, the unclim bed southeast ridge of M ount D an Beard. K err and I reached the sum m it after six days of climbing in good w eather. T he ridge was excellent mixed climbing with three large gendarm es that we had to climb and then rappel down the back side. A fter a final bivouac in a snow cave on the sum m it, we descended the southwest ridge in one day. W e did 5000 feet of climbing. N CCS V, F8, A2. N ext K err and I did a two-day
ascent of the G erm an route on the Mooses Tooth in good weather. A t the same time A nderson and H arris tried a line on the Shield, a 1600foot granite face which is part of the gateway to the R uth A m phitheater. They reached a point halfway up the center of the wall before retreating because of rotten rock. They then also climbed the G erm an route of the M ooses Tooth. A fter a brief rest at Base Cam p K err and I left for the Rooster Comb, the beautiful peak just east of M ount H untington. D espite various other attem pts, only the F rench had had any kind of success when they in 1971 had reached the lower northeast summit. (A .A .J ., 1972, pp. 50-55.) We climbed to the actual sum m it via the south face and east ridge. We crossed to the Tokositna G lacier up a 2000-foot couloir near the M ountain House to get in one day to a small basin directly under the south face of the Rooster Comb. W e then gained the notch between the French and true summ its the next morning. The following morning we climbed the east ridge to the top and back to the bivouac in 15 hours in m arginal w eather. We descended to the basin the following morning and took a rest day there before returning to the Ruth. NCCS V, A4. We flew out after 35 days of good w eather out of 38. S cott W oolums
ascent of the G erm an route on the Mooses Tooth in good weather. A t the same time A nderson and H arris tried a line on the Shield, a 1600foot granite face which is part of the gateway to the R uth A m phitheater. They reached a point halfway up the center of the wall before retreating because of rotten rock. They then also climbed the G erm an route of the M ooses Tooth. A fter a brief rest at Base Cam p K err and I left for the Rooster Comb, the beautiful peak just east of M ount H untington. D espite various other attem pts, only the F rench had had any kind of success when they in 1971 had reached the lower northeast summit. (A .A .J ., 1972, pp. 50-55.) We climbed to the actual sum m it via the south face and east ridge. We crossed to the Tokositna G lacier up a 2000-foot couloir near the M ountain House to get in one day to a small basin directly under the south face of the Rooster Comb. W e then gained the notch between the French and true summ its the next morning. The following morning we climbed the east ridge to the top and back to the bivouac in 15 hours in m arginal w eather. We descended to the basin the following morning and took a rest day there before returning to the Ruth. NCCS V, A4. We flew out after 35 days of good w eather out of 38. S cott W oolums
