Climbing Resume
Steve Mock
2725 Antelope Dr.
Dillon, MT 59725
Rock Climbing: Seventeen years experience. Leading up to 5.10, C2+. More than 100 multi-pitch climbs throughout the U.S.
Ice Climbing: Thirteen years experience. Leading up to WI 5/6. Several first ascents in the Beartooths and Hyalite Canyon, MT.
Selected ice climbs:
- Montana: Cleopatra's Needle, The Sceptor, California Ice, Horsetail Falls
- Wyoming: Broken Hearts, Mean Green, Miami Ice, Grandma's Chicken, High on Boulder
- Utah: Back Off (Santaquin), Donor-sicle (Joe's Valley), Maple Moon and Maple Syrup (Maple Canyon)
- Canada: Ice Nine, Snowline, Carlsberg Column, Pilsner Pillar, Guiness Gulley, Polar Circus, Professor Falls, The Sorcerer, Hydrophobia
Alpine Climbing: Seventeen years experience.
Selected alpine climbs:
- Tetons: Grand Teton: North Ridge, North Face, West Face, East Ridge, Exum Direct, Petzolt Ridge, Black Ice Couloir, winter ascent of Upper Exum. (Summitted 16 times by 8 different routes from 1985 to 1999.)
- Mt. Moran: South Buttress Right, Skillet Glacier
- Others peaks: Many other routes on South and Middle Tetons, Teewinot, Mt. Owen, Guide's Wall, Irene's Arete, and other climbs.
- Cascades: Mount Rainier: Liberty Ridge, Emmons-Winthrop
- Others: Mt. Stuart, North Ridge; Mt. Adams; Mt. Hood; Liberty Bell, Liberty Crack; Mt. Baker, winter ascent.
- Canadian Rockies: Athabasca, North Face and Silverhorn; Edith Cavell, East Ridge; Assiniboine, North Ridge; Mt. Temple, East Ridge and standard route; Mt. Patterson, East Buttress; various other climbs.
- Others: Mt. Whitney, East Face; Granite Peak (MT), North Face and East Ridge; Wolf's Head, East Ridge; Pingora Peak, Northeast Face; Svolvargata, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
Big Wall/Aid Climbing: Eight years experience, leading up through C2+.
Selected wall climbs:
Flathead Buttress, South Face, Blodgett Canyon, MT; Liberty Bell, Liberty Crack, WA; Dolomite Tower, Kor Route, UT; Angel's Landing, Prodigal Son, Zion, UT; Spaceshot, Zion, UT; various shorter aid routes.
Expedition Climbing: Ten years experience on three continents.
Denali, West Buttress, 1990, summitted; Cassin Ridge attempt, 1996, never started route, reached 16,000' on West Buttress.
Mt. Logan, Yukon, East Ridge, left early due to illness.
Aconcagua, False Polish Glacier, 1998, summitted.
Iceland, crossing of Iceland on foot from south to north, including crossing of the Vatnajokull, Europe's largest glacier, summitted Iceland's highest peak enroute.
Miscellaneous:
Extensive winter camping, back country skiing, and ski mountaineering; dog-sledding in Boundary Waters Canoe Area with Will Steger, 1978; rock climbing instructor at Western Montana College for 8 years; winter camping instructor for 2 years.
Environmental Sciences in Montana