"Mount Conness and North Peak, climbing Conness via the Glacier Route. This trip was much harder and took longer than I expected, mostly due to really soft snow conditions. I was postholing all day after about 9:30 am. Even the Conness Glacier was rotten and I was punching through up to my knees and hips seemingly with every other step. The Glacier Route gully was snow-filled and steeper than I expected with a short icy crux. The scramble to the summit of Conness from the notch was a fun catwalk over stable rock. I had enough energy to make the climb to North Peak, again postholing through soft snow. My arrival at the summit of North Peak coincided with the start of a thunderstorm, hitting first with hail, then cold wind, then lightning and thunder. I hauled ass back down to the lakes basin before the lighting started in earnest. The long hike out along Greenstone and Saddlebag lakes seemed to take forever: postholing the entire way (even in snowshoes!) with thunder cracking overhead. By the time I got back to the trailhead, the storm had dropped about three inches of fresh snow." — klotito • May 15, 2021

"Big link up scrambling from the NE Ridge of North Peak, north ridge of Conness and north ridge of White. Rapped the crux off the second tower towards Conness but soloed the rest. Likely my hardest free solo route to date. Complete TR: https://TheMtsAreCalling.com/north" — Christopher • Aug 25, 2020

"Drove up late on Friday from Seal Beach and arriving at Saddlebag Lake about 1am Saturday sleepy eyed and ready to call it quits for the weekend. But after hitting snooze several times in the morning, I managed to get going at a beautiful alpine start of 9am. Hehe. Still feeling a lil bit tired, a cool breeze and beautiful alpine lakes rejuvenated me in no time, and before I knew it, I was on the NW Ridge of North Peak and summiting North Peak shortly after 11am. It was pretty windy and cold on the ridgeline. In fact, moments before summiting, I lost my brand new Arc'teryx hat. I watched it rise and blow easterly with the winds as my eyes filled with tears. ;-) After drying my eyes, I quickly made haste to Mt Conness by following the North Ridge proper. I summited in a couple more hours, quickly signed the register and made my way down the East Ridge. An extremely beautiful day climbing on the granite of the Sierras." — DrBoz • Aug 30, 2014