Cory leading the summit block on Thunderbolt Peak

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Cory leading the summit block on Thunderbolt Peak

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The Palisades

Staring across at our end point mt sill. Made it in 5 hours

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Cory Harelson

Sep 8, 2009

“Cory leading the summit block on Thunderbolt Peak”

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Cory leading the summit block on Thunderbolt Peak

Staring across at our end point mt sill. Made it in 5 hours

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Approaching underhill across the glacier at 530 am, it took us a hour to get from our bivy to the base of the underhill

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Working our way up underhill, great snow for our set up of one tool and one crampon each, at the chock stone go far right

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traverse from the approach to Sill

The graceful beached whale move somewhere between Starlight and North Palisade.

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Rapping somewhere in the middle of the route

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n pal chimney downclimb

Working across the gap between the 3rd class slabs and chimney on thunderbolt, very exposed

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Ben on the 5.4 slab below Thunderbolt Peak on the Sill-to-Thunderbolt Traverse.

NE rib on T-bolt

Panoramic of Thunderbolt to Sill with Mt Sill on the left and Starlight's milk bottle summit block in the upper middle right

view to the NW

traverse to Polemonium

downclimb to N Pal

Looks like an easy romp up there, eh?

Dusy Basin below

exposed fun on the way to Polemonium

(right to left) Thunderbolt, Starlight, North Palisade, and Polemonium from the north

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Cory Harelson

Boise, ID