Climbing one of the steeper sections of the ridge. Note the footprints on the ridge section far below.

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Climbing one of the steeper sections of the ridge. Note the footprints on the ridge section far below.

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Eddie traversing one of the narrower sections of snowy ridge.

Part of my anchor atop P1. I used a piton and my ice tool in frozen turf. The anchor building options are slim and I ran out of gear!

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Eric Klammer

Jan 24, 2014

“Climbing one of the steeper sections of the ridge. Note the footprints on the ridge section far below.”

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Part of my anchor atop P1. I used a piton and my ice tool in frozen turf. The anchor building options are slim and I ran out of gear!

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Eddie traversing the first section of ridge.

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<em>Mertensia alpina</em> (alpine bluebells).

View from atop our P1 looking down the route. Scottish grade probably with all the snow/ice and frozen turf.

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The pyramid-shaped formation is the NE Face of Bancroft.

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The scrambling starts (I traversed climber's right of the route proper to make things more interesting).

<em>Hymenoxys grandiflora</em> (old man of the mountain).

Caroline, Reynolds, and Stewart Lakes.

White-tailed ptarmigan (<em>Lagopus leucura</em>).

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The green line shows a direct start, but to me it seemed rather short and not worth bothering with ropes etc. especially since there's such a nice snow climb up around it.<br>
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We climbed the snow (1st red line) to the base of the wall, then our P1 (blue line), the P2 (2nd red line).<br>
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P1 was a full 60m.<br>
P2 was ~45m.<br>
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