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Mt. Bradley, variation.
By Dylan Johnson, AAC
Mt. Bradley from the southeast: (1) East Buttress (Jochler-Orgler, 1987). (1a) Frieh-Johnson variation (2010). (2) Season of the Sun (Ichimura-Sato-Yamada, 2007). (3) Vitalogy (Allen-Zimmerman, 2010). The Bourbon Bottle (Crouch-Donini, 1996) starts on the left side of the lower shield bordering the start of (3), and the two routes weave similar terrain near Vitology’s upper dots). Other routes exist to the left of the deep cleft left of the Bourbon Bottle. Clifford Cochran
On May 2 John Frieh and I climbed a new variation on the southeast face of Mt. Bradley, connecting the first third of Season of the Sun (Ichimura-Sato-Yamada, 2007) with the upper section of the East Buttress (Jochler-Orgler, 1987). The line departs from Season of the Sun just before that route heads left into the upper corner system, and continues up and right through 500′ of previously unclimbed snow and mixed terrain (M6) to gain the East Buttress at roughly two-thirds height. On the upper East Buttress we found winter-like conditions (M5 C2), and 12 hours after leaving the glacier we reached the summit.
