We wanted to make our trip to Seattle feel like it wasn't a complete bust so we scrounged through one of our climbing guide books and found a peak that we could do in a do on Snoqualamie pass called The Tooth.
Washington has a lot of alpine cragging peaks that are very doable in a day which a novelty to us since most the approaches we are used to take about a full day making it so we have to go in with heavy overnight packs. Today we got to bring small and light packs which would make for a quick hike in to the base. After about 3 miles, some snow crossing and scrambling we had reached to base of our route.
When we were at the base racking up a father and his son were just coming down from the peak. The dad informed us that due to time constraints he had to leave one of his cams slightly stuck in a crack but with a little finagaling it should pop out. We definately were going to snag this one up as those little babies cost anywhere between $70 and $100 per piece depending on which one it is. The 2ish pitches of 5.6 quickly led us to the summit but hadn't found the cam along the way. There are a few different ways to reach the top so we figured we'd find it on the way down. As we were relaxing on the top we met a crazy old goat (he was actually a person) who enlightened us with stories from his climbing career and gave us some local insight on some classic routes we should climb while in Washington. We bid ways with the gentleman and headed down the peak still on the hunt for this lost cam. We scoured the face, tugged and pulled on some permanent pieces thinking that maybe one of them was his? Alas, we gave up the search and figured the father was playing a dirty trick on us and wanted to see us hunt for a proposodely lost cam. Jokes on us? or maybe the next lucky souls will find it :) Packed our gear away and made a quick jaunt back to the car to head back to Bavaria!
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