Above the Cable Route, winter 2013.

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Above the Cable Route, winter 2013.

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Long's North Face (Cable Route) - January 4, 2013.

Black - unroped ascent, blue - roped ascent, red - descent, yellow - raps.

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looking up the climb, the crux is visible at the top of the photo

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Long's North Face (Cable Route) - January 4, 2013.

Above the Cable Route, winter 2013.

Black - unroped ascent, blue - roped ascent, red - descent, yellow - raps.

The Cable Route (a.k.a. North Face of Long's) from boulder field on Aug 1st, 2007.

One rappel on the descent.

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Look at the slope angle on the descent above the Cable Route.

Conditions on the Cable Route as of 6/25/2013. On ascent, snowpack was solid, very bootable. Tech section had some ice (lots of verglas and some larger stuff). On descent (~1pm), snow was super soft, ice underneath in some spots made for very slippery conditions, crampons super helpful. Tech section was gushing stream on descent.

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Will Drexler on the summit. He was a little tired. 11/25/05.

Snowfield above the Cable early in the season.

Shane Murphy resting after the first pitch.

A friend, Amy Myers, and I fourth-classing up the Cable Route, just below the crux (from what I've learned here on MP) late July or early August 2000. We were college, cross-country running buddies on summer vacation and were told this was an alternative to the Keyhole Route. We were just in running shoes and had a blast.

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