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The offwidth crack on the 4th pitch.

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Aug 27, 2015

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Sharkstooth.

11 year old Katie Kelble on the summit with a proud dad.

General Sketch of the route

Rick Leading the second pitch.

Rappel beta for 2nd anchors: the right side shows my rope ends after rapping from the first anchor with a 70m (Knot your ends!). This brings you to the ledge where you can walk to the 2nd anchors shown on the left side. The lines show the path I walked.

A route overlay.

The route follows the buttress in the sunlight on the left. Two false summits are on the route.

"If you leave your boots right here, I'll gladly watch them for you."

Tony Bubb "leads" (solos) up the narrowing ridge of the route, headed for another spacious belay ledge. Photo by Sarah Shull, 1996.

CMS guide Roy Leggett starting the next to last pitch on Sharkstooth Northeast Ridge route.

A photo overlay of the approach.

Sharkstooth NE Ridge. Start marked.

Climbers on the NE Ridge, as viewed from the summit of the Petit Grepon.

A topo for Northeast Ridge, Sharkstooth.

Scoping out the route from near the top of the Gash

1st pitch.

The final rap anchor as of Aug. 2022 - I believe it's a couple pins and a couple nuts and super bomber.

Climbers on the first pitch of the NE ridge.

On the 2nd rappel station off of Sharkstooth.

Looking up at Sharkstooth from the Gash boulderfield.

One of the rap anchor... it's "ok".

Leading up pitch 3. It's a looong one if you want to make the first false summit.

Bonnie Von Grebe on the Northeast Ridge, circa 1993.

Eric climbing up to the 3rd belay station.

Lou and Tom getting ready to start up the Sharkstooth on a bluebird day.

Chris Sheridan, Nathan Feaver & Kristen Feaver heading into the Gash

Start of the 4th pitch.

The summit pitch.

The crux layback on pitch 2. It's a bit flaring, but there's an easy cam placement at the base.

Getting ready at the base.

Nathan seconding second pitch while marmots rifle through our packs below.

View from the top.

June 27th, 2009 in the late evening.

Sharkstooth in October.

June 21st, 2017 (SOOOO MUCH SNOW/ICE). Bring appropriate gear.

Stemming up P1.

An anchor.

The summit of Sharkstooth.

Kendal following up the 4th pitch.

A view of Sharkstooth from the approach. The climb follows the left ridge.

Bob Lewis approaching the first bench belay.

The 4th rap station webbing still looks good as of July 20, 2024.

The approach in May 2022.

A view of the Petit Grepon from the 3rd pitch.

Chris approaching the face

Near the top.

Nate A. starting up pitch 3.

5th pitch (we did the climb in 4 long pitches with 60m rope), July 18 2009.

The wide crack on pitch 5. There are plenty of features to keep the climbing at 5.5. No wide gear is necessary.

Coming down.

Looking up P2.

Afternoon sun on The Sharkstooth.

Here's a pic of anchors on top of Sharkstooth. Three old pins backed up with a chockstone. The rap station is on N.E. side of the summit.

The offwidth crack on the 4th pitch.

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