The summit smirk

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The summit smirk

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Climbing on the Red Dihedral. The namesake dihedral looms above.

Coming out of the key hole on the last pitch.

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thehackattacks

Aug 22, 2015

“The summit smirk”

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Photo on the summit.

The Incredible Hulk

Red Dihedral follows the line - dashed line represents part of route behind the ridge.

Looking down the splitter pitch. So good!<br>
Photo by Patrick Mulligan

Looking down the stellar hand crack on pitch 5.

Climbers on Pitch 3 (Red Dihedral)

Scary, nasty descent. Best to be done while there is still daylight.

Incredible Hulk from basecamp

Climber atop the Red Dihedral pitch as viewed from Positive Vibes

Pat Price coming up the spliter crack of Pitch 5.

Tony Tennessee on P5 - Splitter Crack seen above

To the top we go!

Having Fun on the hulk

Canadian Matt emerging.

Patrick leading my fav pitch of the route.

Looking down from the belay at the base of the Shattered Pillar. The orange speck on the right side in the bushes is our tent!
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Good water source in the center of the photo at the end of the large snowfield where the talus touches the bedrock.
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July '17

Erica M exits the Red Dihedral

The hand crack on pitch 5 perfectly splits an otherwise clean, smooth face. Heaven!

Two Towers

the only description I can come up with is "How to f@ck up someone's experience on a crux pitch". A dickish move IMHO, cosidering that after 4 pitch there are many ways to pass a slower party.

Start of roped climbing to link p1-2 (per supertopo description). aug. 2016

Fred Batliner starts P2

Pitch 11 & 12 Chimney

Getting ready to take on the penultimate pitch.

SPLITTER

Tight, even for a skinny lad like me!

Red Dihedral Route with Robert Carrere

Climbing on the Red Dihedral. The namesake dihedral looms above.

The summit smirk

Coming out of the key hole on the last pitch.

If you start just before the 5.8 bulge, a 70m will get you all the way to the dihedral.

At 6'5" I struggled *hard* to get through the "birth canal" exit to the summit. September 2007.

Rob on Red Dihedral

Great climbing and great scenery on the Red Dihedral.

TT traversing the Class 3 ledge of P9

65 year-old Phil Bircheff topping out onto the ridge (P10) below the summit.

Looking down from middle of the eponymous pitch

Looking up the route from the base, third class ledges directly above and first belay just offscreen to the left.

Erica M nears the end of Pitch 2.

Our Rack

Dave Goldstein at the technical crux of the RD pitch and route

Time to be born again! Only have to get through this hole to get to the top!

Sending the memorable crux!

Scott looking thrilled to exit the final pitch. Photo: Christopher Maher.

J-Sexy cruisin up

Reading the topo

Last linked pitch to the summit, just above the Class 3 walk from the notch.

The crux pitch - smoke from the fires turned everything yellowish (6 Sept 2020)

My good Friend having fun on Red Dihedral