Another section of tricky downclimbing before Cpt. Bivwacko Tower.

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Another section of tricky downclimbing before Cpt. Bivwacko Tower.

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On LB, looking across gnarly traverse to Blanca. Clouds sweeping over Ellignwood's shoulder on the left

Traverse as seen from the Little Bear summit on 1/29/11 just before we started the journey.

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George Bell

Aug 30, 2007

“Another section of tricky downclimbing before Cpt. Bivwacko Tower.”

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Final steps up Blanca after a snowy traverse.<br>
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Photo by Jason Halladay.

The final section before reaching Blanca.

'Tightroping', 7/29/2020.

Clouds rolling in at the start of our traverse.

One of the many downclimbs along the traverse.

Enjoying lots of exposure along the LB/Blanca traverse. September 2007. Photo by Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson downclimbing another knife edge along the ridge. This section was roughly 60% of the way from Little Bear.

On LB, looking across gnarly traverse to Blanca. Clouds sweeping over Ellignwood's shoulder on the left

Another section of tricky downclimbing before Cpt. Bivwacko Tower.

Traverse as seen from the Little Bear summit on 1/29/11 just before we started the journey.

On Blanca looking back over ridge. 2+ hours on the ridge is a LONG time to completely focus on safe climbing

The full Little Bear/Blanca traverse as seen from Ellingwood Point. September 2007

More knife-edge!

Just a *little* ridge... The traverse looking back from Blanca

The traverse on August 22, 2004 (from Ellingwood)

Chris Johnson dowclimbing off of the summit of Little Bear. I personally thought this was the crux of the climb...very high exposure and consequences for error

The high exposure traverse to the right of the ridge that takes you to the easy hiking before the gnarly last towers. Many loose holds on this section!

Me on the snowy traverse in early June.<br>
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Photo by Jason Halladay.

Really, really spectacular.
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Photo credit: Hammar!

Climbing one of the many small towers along the <br>
ridge.

Dropping off the summit of Little Bear, looking at <br>
the ridge leading to Blanca...a long way off.

Dropping down off the summit of Little Bear, this is trickier than it appears.

Robbie ignoring the exposure while working around one of the many towers on the ridge.

Monkey-boy swinging around another piece of exposed ridge, Lake Como far beneath in the basin

...about 3/4 of the way along the ridge. Little Bear <br>
in the distance.

Looking at Little Bear, about 1/4 of the way along <br>
the ridge.

Looking straight down from the LB/Blanca ridge. These are the cliffs on the south eastish side of the ridge.

Robbie shooting a GU to stay sharp on the knife ridge. LB in the distance

On the ridge climbing the catwalk up to "tower 2".

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