An Outward Bound student cruises up the South Donkey Ear on toprope.

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An Outward Bound student cruises up the South Donkey Ear on toprope.

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One of the few pitons we found! I'm nearly at the top here. We looked hard for previous anchors left to rap off, but all we found were a couple worse pitons than this one, and only one of them had a ring on it. So, we assumed that whoever'd been up there before us rappelled off either this single piton, or the other single piton with the ring. Crazies.

Splitter, UNCLIMBED handcracks on the North Chimney.

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Devan Johnson

Aug 1, 2006

“An Outward Bound student cruises up the South Donkey Ear on toprope.”

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An Outward Bound student cruises up the South Donkey Ear on toprope.

Splitter, UNCLIMBED handcracks on the North Chimney.

Topping out on the South Donkey Ear. Capitol Peak and Snowmass Mountain are in the background.

The Chimneys at sunset from Bear Basin.

Our route up the grand chimney of Treasure Mountain. Pretty good rock. Descent belay ledge but not that much gear at the ledge. 5.8+ climbing. Green marks the belays, yellow marks our anchor we left to rap off, two old pitons and a tri-cam equalized with webbing and a locker.

Midday at the Chimneys.

Looking over to Capitol and Snowmass.

The final approach - Donkey Ear on the left.

Lookin' down on rog mid way up the second pitch. Rog is belaying from the ledge about a couple hundred off the deck. The gear is good, if the rock is good, but the rock is questionable in places.

As seen from Crystal Peak

The chimneys as seen between the first and second pond coming from North Pole Basin.

The second pond you pass coming from North Pole Basin.

Looking back to the saddle between Crystal and Treasury. The path is on a nearly level ledge below the shadowed cliffs.

The first pond you pass in Bear Basin. The chimneys are on the ridge connecting to the small peak on the right.

Looking up from the lake on the North Pole Basin trail. The road (really a trail) follows the old jeep road on the right side of the valley below the white cliffs (this is marble similar to that at the Yule Quarry). Crystal Peak on the right, Treasury in the back. You cut up to the pass just beyond where the trail disappears.

Cool looking chimney splitting one of the spires.

Early evening.

I was here last summer without my rack... not sure why this crack isn't listed, but it looks splitter!

My 5 piece anchor amungst the rubble that is the top of the spire. It was difficult to find a good anchor due to the crappy rock, but even more significant was the danger of the rope running over the loose rock on the ground and knocking chunks over the edge onto the climber below. This anchor worked out very well though, it is directly at the top of the pitch, about 20 feet back.

One of the few pitons we found! I'm nearly at the top here. We looked hard for previous anchors left to rap off, but all we found were a couple worse pitons than this one, and only one of them had a ring on it. So, we assumed that whoever'd been up there before us rappelled off either this single piton, or the other single piton with the ring. Crazies.

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