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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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Pitch 8 after the diagonal crack
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
It's called Picture Peak for a reason
Route description (based on Dustysdawg's original description and added our personal input)
Picture Peak, NE Buttress topo
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.
NB topping out P7 with Hungry Packer Lake below, NE Face of Picture Peak.
The Reach Around 10+ alternate to the pitch 5 squeeze. Had a big pack on so took this way instead. Classic crack to exciting face. FA?
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)
NB coming out of the Flakes Chimney, P5, NE Face of Picture Peak IV 5.10
RIP John. We saw this memorial plaque on the descent and I looked up the name afterwards out of curiosity. Here's the most info I can find (in the comments because of the character limit).
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
Route as seen from the descent