Tower Traverse!

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Tower Traverse!

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View from the Fresh Air Traverse. Exposed, but easy going.

Tom Slater topping out above the "washboard", leaving the snow behind but going into the cold shadows.<br>
Photo Doug Englekirk.

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Chris DeWitt

Oct 1, 2012

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At the end of the FAT. Kats first alpine climb, first multi pitch, first 14r, first car to car, first time climbing with a pack, first big-time exposure, and one of her first days on the rock in general. A real trial by fire, and proudly sent clean, excepting the dirty words emitted.

View from the Fresh Air Traverse. Exposed, but easy going.

Tower Traverse!

Tom Slater topping out above the "washboard", leaving the snow behind but going into the cold shadows.<br>
Photo Doug Englekirk.

Harz following the Fresh Air Traverse

View from Iceberg Lake of the route, w/ line drawn of East Face.

The beginning of the fresh air traverse

Early morning alpenglow

Climber on the fresh air traverse.

East Face of Whitney

East face

5.7 off-width crack above the Grand Staircase.

nearing the summit

Ebersbacher Ledges on the approach to Lower Boy Scout Lake

lost on the Fresh Air Traverse. Super easy when you find the correct line

Looking down from the start of the Fresh Air Traverse

Miguel Carmona climbing the Fresh Air Traverse in winter of 1983.

View from the talus field

Mt. Whitney and the Needles

View of the exposure after the Fresh Air Traverse

Mt Russell in the distance

approx lines of the E side routes

reaching for fresh air

Scott and me on the summit after climbing the East Face

Looking down from the start of the "Tower Traverse" pitch.

Just before the Tower Traverse (pitch 1)

Flex following the Tower Traverse

views from the last section

Joshua Reinig in black high on the Fresh Air Traverse. Drew small circle around him.

Simul-climbing the Washboard - 1987 (note swami-belt & guess who was carrying the pack).

climbing with Zach Schneider

Wayne Campbell starting the Tower Traverse, circa 1986

2 climbers on top of the 2nd tower on East Buttress of Mt Whitney

Mt. Whitney, Day and Keeler Needles.

Above the Washboard. Climb over these blocks, then traverse down and right (west) to reach the start of the Fresh Air Traverse.

Following the Fresh Air Traverse

looking back down to Iceberg Lake

Just Doug and I on the summit. An exciting day, but damn cold.

the Grand Staircase

The "Tower Traverse."

Richard Lewis, Tower Traverse, 1987.

Tower Traverse

Just before the washboard on Whitney's East Face

All that fresh air.....

Mariann at the base of the east face

"Fresh Air Traverse." Superfluous protection was placed to prevent a pendulum.

Fresh Air Traverse visible right ahead!

approach choss

The Fresh Air Traverse

route start

The Washboard

the Washboard

looking back at the Tower Traverse | The holds were less positive, so this was the psychological crux for me, not the Fresh Air Traverse.

heading up to the big alcove

On the approach - first week of November'16

looking back at the Fresh Air Traverse

Tower Traverse

Top of the 3rd pitch coming out the top of the Washboard.

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