Looking up at pitch 5, the chimney pitch. This is the flakes feature that you are looking for from the ground.

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Looking up at pitch 5, the chimney pitch. This is the flakes feature that you are looking for from the ground.

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Detail view of descent from Picture Peak that my partner and I took in July 2019. Possible alternate rap on the SW side of the first tower indicated, but we did not confirm this rap. Other routes likely possible!

Picture Peak from Hungry Packer Lake

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Dustysdawg

Sep 7, 2011

“Looking up at pitch 5, the chimney pitch. This is the flakes feature that you are looking for from the ground.”

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Picture Peak from Hungry Packer Lake

Route description (based on Dustysdawg's original description and added our personal input)

Looking down the long and sustained P6 of Picture Peak's NE Face IV 5.10. Excluding the Incredible Hulk, this might be the best pitch I've climbed in these mountains.

Natalie Brechtel topping out P7 with Hungry Packer Lake below, NE Face of Picture Peak.

Natalie Brechtel coming out of the Flakes Chimney, P5, NE Face of Picture Peak IV 5.10

the gazelle cranking thin crux moves, protected by a #2 Lowe ball and #5 hb brass offset - it's a technically sustained and heady pitch

Looking up the route

Route as seen from the descent

40 foot 4th class downclimb from the final belay to gain the summit ridgeline

Ridgeline from the final belay

Pitch 8 blocky terrain

Pitch 8 after the diagonal crack

Great diagonal finger crack on Pitch 8

Looking up at pitch 4.

Overview of the route I took with my partner in July 2019 to ascend and descend Picture Peak. There may be other routes as well.

Entering the flakes chimney.

Starting up towards the Pitch 5 chimney

Last move to the small but cozy pitch 4 ledge before the chimney

Looking down Pitch 4

Looking up pitch 1, look for obvious crack into a right facing corner

Looking up at pitch 6. Sitting on top of the flakes on a huge, comfy belay ledge.

You can either go left up that little bulge

Picture Peak, NE Buttress topo

or right up a clean crack to gain the chimney

Looking down the great, full value Pitch 6

we found a rap sling/biners right around that location. 60' rap, then down the loose/bowling alley 3rd class slope/gully to the (skier's) right (SW)

approaching the belay ledge after a whole bunch of OW climbing on Pitch 7

Detail view of descent from Picture Peak that my partner and I took in July 2019. Possible alternate rap on the SW side of the first tower indicated, but we did not confirm this rap. Other routes likely possible!

Looking up at pitch 5, the chimney pitch. This is the flakes feature that you are looking for from the ground.