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.

Topmost "fixed" anchor on the Cable Route. A couple of old bolts girthed with some dyneema and a quicklink. A 60m rap from here WILL NOT get you to the first eyebolt. We rapped from here, 30-40ft down to another eyebolt, and then rapped again to the first eyebolt on a 60m rope.

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Apr 24, 2013

“Above the Cable Route, winter 2013.”

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Cable Route as seen from Storm Peak on 3-8-08. Two parties are visible, one just reaching the top of technical pitch, the other descending from above.

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Photo: Dancesatmoonrise.

The Cable Route follows the red line to the summit.

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Top of the easy, technical stuff.

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

Above the Cable Route, winter 2013.

Topmost "fixed" anchor on the Cable Route. A couple of old bolts girthed with some dyneema and a quicklink. A 60m rap from here WILL NOT get you to the first eyebolt. We rapped from here, 30-40ft down to another eyebolt, and then rapped again to the first eyebolt on a 60m rope.

The descent in early June 03 above the raps. Crampons are still highly recommended at this time of year for descents as well.

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

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

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

Ben and Shane on the summit of Longs.

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.

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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Ernie Port just above the real climbing on Cable route.

Climbing up the lower portion of the route just above Chasm view.

One rappel on the descent.

Snowfield above the Cable early in the season.

2nd pitch up the Cable Route on July 3, 2012. Practically no snow but this spot. Lots of water on the rock, though.

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Shane Murphy resting after the first pitch.

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Shane Murphy in front of the Cable Route--the dihedral just right of the edge of the Diamond.

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