Mt. Goode, East Face, The Goode, the Grateful, and the Ganja!

California, Sierra Nevada, Eastern Sierra
Author: The Editors. Climb Year: 2025. Publication Year: 2026.

In the summer of 2025, Chase Leary and Andy Puhvel made more than a dozen trips to the east face of Mt. Goode (13,085’) to complete a route started seven years earlier by Leary, Jason Lakey, and Sarah Land. The result was The Goode, the Grateful, and the Ganja! (9 pitches, 5.13a), redpointed in August. Puhvel’s story about this climb is in our sister publication, the 2026 American Climbing Journal (ACJ).