Mount Conness, Morning Thunder Route. In early September Bob Locke, Bob Harrington and I hiked in from Saddlebag Lakes to a lovely plateau south of Conness’s summit where we spent the night. Leaving camp we descended a sandy gully to the base of a 1000-foot buttress just right of the “west” (south) face of Conness, and separated from it by an ugly-looking gully or chimney. After an improbable face-climbing start, we climbed five more pitches, and a final 200 feet of 4th class led to the summit. NCCS III, F9.

Rick Wheeler