Any route on Forbidden is do-able car to car in a day, especially the west or east ridges. I managed the much longer north ridge in 14 hours.

ExcitibleBoy wrote:Any route on Forbidden is do-able car to car in a day, especially the west or east ridges. I managed the much longer north ridge in 14 hours.

Although it is possible. I would like to caution that if you were to do it in a day you better be very comfortable on this type of terrain because you probably dont want to be pitching it out. You should probably be familiar with the area because you might be doing part of the approach in the dark. A lot of people spend the night at the west ridge col who were not planning to.

I will want to do this next summer. Assuming I'm too much of a wuss to simul-climb it, could this be done in two full days?

-Mark

Yea two full days is great.

BuckytheGREAT wrote:I'm looking into doing that climb early June.
I found some info online but I'm wondering if this is possible to do in one day from the road?

Read about the first ascent.

They bush-whacked something like 15 miles to the peak (no roads or trails back then), climbed the peak, and bush-whacked back out. In one day.

Is it possible to do in one day? Nowadays with a road almost all the way to the peak? Hmmm.....

I'll echo the comments about trying the north ridge in one day. Unless you are really fast and know the way to the route, you'll probably not make it in one day.