Eekayruk, Falsoola, Brooks Range. Starting from the pipeline road ...
E ekayruk, Falsoola, Brooks Range. Starting from the pipeline road on A ugust 17, our group crossed the D ietrich River and followed K uyuktuvuk and Trem bley Creeks, then crossed into the H am m ond River valley. A fter hiking over K innorutin Pass we climbed D oonerak (7457 feet) by its south ridge from St. Patricks Creek on A ugust 22. Records of two previous ascents were found on the summit. Snow kept us in our tents for several days and on A ugust 27 we started hiking back the same way as we w anted to avoid m ore snow on the passes. H ow ever the w eather improved and on A ugust 31 we climbed E ekayruk M ountain (6490 feet) via a snow couloir on its north face. A fter we reached the
summit, we saw a higher point on the northw est ridge of the m ountain (approxim ately 6530 feet) which we also climbed and where we placed the sum m it register. N ext day we climbed Falsoola M ountain (6320 feet) by a couloir leading from the south fork of the Trem bley Creek valley to the southeast ridge, and from there to the summit. Both Falsoola and Eekayruk have not, to our knowledge, been climbed previously. We hiked out the same day we climbed Falsoola (Septem ber 1). The w eather in the late sum m er was mixed, occasionally very beautiful, with one severe m ulti-day snowstorm, and we saw no mosquitos or people, only a few planes overhead and a mysterious footprint along the H am m ond River. All climbs were made by all party m em bers: Irene and Colin Miller, Skip W alker, F red Rowley, and Vera K om arkova. The last three party members were associated with the Institute of A rctic and Alpine R e search, U niversity of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Ir e n e M iller
summit, we saw a higher point on the northw est ridge of the m ountain (approxim ately 6530 feet) which we also climbed and where we placed the sum m it register. N ext day we climbed Falsoola M ountain (6320 feet) by a couloir leading from the south fork of the Trem bley Creek valley to the southeast ridge, and from there to the summit. Both Falsoola and Eekayruk have not, to our knowledge, been climbed previously. We hiked out the same day we climbed Falsoola (Septem ber 1). The w eather in the late sum m er was mixed, occasionally very beautiful, with one severe m ulti-day snowstorm, and we saw no mosquitos or people, only a few planes overhead and a mysterious footprint along the H am m ond River. All climbs were made by all party m em bers: Irene and Colin Miller, Skip W alker, F red Rowley, and Vera K om arkova. The last three party members were associated with the Institute of A rctic and Alpine R e search, U niversity of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Ir e n e M iller
