Meteorite Mountain (6565ft) - 16Apr2024 Meteorite Mountain from Browns Creek I first laid my eyes on this Mountain when I moved to Valdez for school in January of 2021. It is very impressive and intimidating, to say the least. At this time climbing the face was not even in the back of my head. Just thoughts of that's a sick mountain. Quickly becoming overwhelmed with the sheer ruggedness of the peaks in the zone, I came up with more and more peaks I'd like to try and ascend. From town Meteorite, Francis, Sugarloaf, Snowdome (Nemok), Benet, and Hogsback become eye candy I stared at every day the sun was out. Big Avy. Photo credit: Snowbrains April 2023 came along, and I knew I was ready to climb the face. The climbing is not overly technical just very steep snow. Conditions are the crux of the climb. Once the approach is done you are in Avy terrain for 5500ft with only a few sections of relief. I had my bags packed and trip planned to head to Valdez for the weeken
