North America, United States, Alaska, Talkeetna Range

Publication Year: 1968.

Talkeetna Range. On October 1 my wife Grace and I made the first ascent of “Hoary Peak” (6057 feet), an important landmark mountain, highest in the Willow Creek drainages. We had walked in ten miles from the Craigie Creek road the day before and made the ascent by way of the gullies on the southeast face. On the way out the same day we climbed “The Hatchethead” (4750 feet), a rock tower of that shape near one of the passes we had to cross.

J. Vincent Hoeman