Zesty and exhilarating.

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Zesty and exhilarating.

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Marga Powell jamming the final crack to the summit. Rebuffat's Arete looms in the background.

Two climbers at the top of the 4th pitch on May 26, 2002. Photo taken from the top of Long John Wall.

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nicholas patterson

Apr 10, 2012

“Zesty and exhilarating.”

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Dwight on the 4th pitch traverse.

The money pitch.

Avery pulling hard at the end of P4.

Amazing arete to the summit.

4th pitch traverse.

Rewritten area.

Getting down from Green Spur and Hot Spur.

Gary P. on the traverse.

Clint racking up at the eyebolt at the Red Ledge belay.<br>
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Christa Cline on the beautiful fourth pitch crack.

We linked pitches via Great Zot with a 70m. This would be our 3rd pitch, just finishing the traversed and heading up.

The classic hand traverse.

After a hard fight with pitch 4, we recuperate before the push to the summit.

Kevin Presley leading the classic pitch 4 traverse.

Pitch 4 of Rewritten.

Abrahm after the P4 hand traverse (even more spicy sans rope).

Leading P4.

Greg Diamond on the superb 4th pitch of Rewritten.

Topping out on R. Arete.<br>
2/5/09. Could be YOU.

Working up p4 on a cold and windy December day -- but we had the route to ourselves! (Photo by James Burns.)

Bonnie enjoying the climb on a beautiful spring day. Gotta love the exposure.

Kirsten Russell enjoying the hand traverse at the start of pitch 4.

Marga Powell jamming the final crack to the summit. Rebuffat's Arete looms in the background.

Zesty and exhilarating.

Two climbers at the top of the 4th pitch on May 26, 2002. Photo taken from the top of Long John Wall.

Summit after Green Spur-Rewritten-Rebuffat's Arete linkup.
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Photo: Logan Dop.

Unknown climber coming up Rebuffat's Arete.

Unknown Climber approaches top of Rebuffat's Arete. Photo: Mike Morley (from top of The Yellow Spur)

4th pitch just after the hand traverse.

Drew says, "Oh la la" on Rebuffat's Arete.

Christopher Perkins on Fourth pitch traverse of Rewritten. Taken by Tristan Paddock.

Beta photo from the ground showing The Great Zot P1 into Rewritten P2-P4, and Rebuffat's Arete. The penultimate anchor position and final pitch cannot be shown from this angle. (This is my first beta photo. Please comment if it can be improved.)

Rebuffat's and the top.

Unknown climber on 4th pitch of Rewritten, Aug 24th, 2012. Taken from top of the 5th pitch of Yellow Spur.

Midway through the P4 traverse looking down.<br>
Are we scared yet?<br>

View from the top.

The eye bolt at the end of P2. It also has 2 bolts with chains and rap rings above it.

Brad Schildt on the 4th pitch.

Hunter on belay, me climbing on and able to take a picture of the signature spectacular pitch.

Me climbing Rebuffat's Arete. Photo taken by Terry Murphy.

Rewritten.

Exposure x a million.

Matt on P1.

Exposure after the traverse on p4. The rest is good enough to take pictures.

M. Clark going up P3.

Sarah enjoying the final crack to the summit.

The view from the base of the signature pitch. Rewritten.

Jason Partin coming up the Great Zot variation for P1.

Gary tip toeing across the traverse on 4th pitch.

Super rad crux beta.

Charlie at the cave on P1.

Brenda on the last pitch with the arete point in the background.

Bomber eyebolt at the end of P2.

A terrific climb all-around, but I should mention the fin near the end, Rebuffat's Arete, is so worth doing!

Me and Riley Friesen at the top of pitch 4.

Nikki, after deciding that the hand traverse on P4 wasn't her idea of fun, continues up to join The Great Zot.

A climber starting P4 crack as seen from high on Tower One.

Rewritten summit.

...and another view of the unknown climber nearing the top of Rewritten.

Abrahm starts up the steep, thin crack on P4.

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