Leatherman North Ridge Route

Steve Sheriff of Missoula,  Montana climbed the north ridge direct. The following information was provided by Steve. He also put up a new route on Old Hyndman. Please refer to the Pioneers for that route.

Leatherman Peak, North Ridge via the 11,909 knob on the way, 7/10/1999. I

did this with Dave Pengelly and John Kienberger. It seems as if this should

have been done before as it is an obvious way up Leatherman if you are in

the east fork valley. I'd wanted to get up Leatherman and we were down there

to climb Corruption so we wandered up Leatherman via the north ridge as

well. This was mostly a walk, with some minor scrambling and makes for a

really nice, scenic ridge wander. Nice enough that we reversed the route to

return to the car - an 8 hour round trip. The wildlife highlight of this one

was jumping a lion on the way back through the woods.

cheers, and safe climbing,

Steve Sheriff

706 Lolo Street

Missoula, MT