This week, May 2, 2016 we, the same team, came at it from the Scout Camp through Jackson Creek, camping at Happy Fork. The hike to the Window was hard work, but manageable. The traverse to Kandlbinder was much more difficult. We descended from Kandlbinder on the ridgeline that becomes the western side of Jackson Creek, and midway down that traversed in totally unknown territory to try to make it back to the Divide below the Window, and a known trail. However, it quickly got dark and the return route was difficult to find by headlamp.

Your pictures of your recent ascent to Kandlbinder show a large, open talus slope, with very little brush. I couldn’t locate that; it would have been better than the ad lib route we followed.

I saw your name a couple of times in the Window Walker’s Log, and in the Kandlbinder log as well.

Thanks again for the useful info.

Regards,

Don Gruber, Del Rey Oaks

Corky,
I know you had an intrepid youth, as evidenced in your story above. I am glad you are still attuned to the ridges and valleys of Big Sur. I am having to work hard to catch up. I was at the Window and Kandlbinder earlier this week (5-2-2016). It was grueling, to say the least, but extremely beautiful. I had my lab, Bob, along, and he is not speaking to me now. Camped at Happy Fork, looped through the Window, Kandlbinder and then down a ridge and traversed to Jackson Creek on a route that required a lot of low-crawling and muttering.
Regards,
Don Gruber