At just the exact right hour of the afternoon during mid summer, while we were standing at the Rock Creek crag, chatting about climbing just after doing an ascent of a route, we peered far off to the west, and on the far side of the valley, perched high on a forested hill slope, both of us instantly realized — that a minor rocky looking prominence protruding from the hillside actually IS a small rock pinnacle! The late afternoon sunlight shafts sideways, at just the right hour to reveal the true shape of the little pinnacle from afar.
So, a few weekends later, the team congealed a 'must-do-it' plan, and went out on the hunt for ir, and found it, and done did it — a ground-up ascent of the infamous Skookum Pinnacle.
It's quite rare to find such little odd pinnacle summits anywhere near Portland these days, as the pickin's are mighty slim (most of these types of little climbing treasures have long since been discovered and ascended).
