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On the hike back, Twin Owls gets some nice lighting.
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The taller bit of Gem Lake Wall.
On Sept 2, 2010, Ross Swanson and I climbed the big cleft to the right of me. I found an old pin with sling at where I belayed Ross up the next pitch (crux, 5.9-). After scrambling around to the east and back to the our base, I led the pitch pictured here: intermittent right-leaning flakes and cracks to the left of the cleft and ending at the same belay by the old pin (5.9+, Aliens through #3 Camalot). We rapped. When I have time, I'll think of a name and place it in the route list.
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Leo Paik
Aug 18, 2012
“On the hike back, Twin Owls gets some nice lighting.”  

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On the hike back, Twin Owls gets some nice lighting.
On Sept 2, 2010, Ross Swanson and I climbed the big cleft to the right of me. I found an old pin with sling at where I belayed Ross up the next pitch (crux, 5.9-). After scrambling around to the east and back to the our base, I led the pitch pictured here: intermittent right-leaning flakes and cracks to the left of the cleft and ending at the same belay by the old pin (5.9+, Aliens through #3 Camalot). We rapped. When I have time, I'll think of a name and place it in the route list.
This is a crag just to the west that looked better from the trail than it did up close. Gem Lake Wall was better.<br> <br> <em>Edit: I'm told by Scott K. that this may be Cosmic Commode Crag with 4 routes.</em>
Unknown crag just to the south. The rock is reminiscent of Jurassic Park at Lily Lake.
This is the shorter side above Gem Lake itself.
The taller bit of Gem Lake Wall.