North America, United States, Alaska, Chugach Range

Publication Year: 1965.

Chugach Range. During an extremely rare period of sustained weather, Art Davidson, from Colorado, and I made first ascents of Kuluk Peak (7535 feet) and Peak 7190, north of Eagle River and east of Anchorage. Real problems came on the approach the second day when we struggled through alder brush to cover less than a mile in eight hours up Kuluk Creek. Kuluk Peak proved an easy climb via its east face and northeast ridge, mostly on snow. We reached the top in the early evening of July 15. The next day we climbed the southwest ridge of Peak 7190, for which we are proposing the name of Mount Soggy because of our soaked condition from wading in the wet snow. Unreported from the previous season was the first ascent of Peak 7005 (Mount Insignificant). After weathering a two-day storm on the Eklutna Glacier, Larry Underwood and I climbed its long northwest snow ridge from the West Eklutna Glacier on June 4, 1963.

John Bousman, Mountaineering Club of Alaska