Pitch 8 after the diagonal crack

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Pitch 8 after the diagonal crack

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Pitch 8 blocky terrain

Great diagonal finger crack on Pitch 8

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julienlecorps

Sep 4, 2015

“Pitch 8 after the diagonal crack”

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Picture Peak from Hungry Packer Lake

Natalie Brechtel coming out of the Flakes Chimney, P5, NE Face of Picture Peak IV 5.10

Natalie Brechtel topping out P7 with Hungry Packer Lake below, NE Face of Picture Peak.

Looking down the long and sustained P6 of Picture Peak's NE Face IV 5.10. Excluding the Incredible Hulk, this might be the best pitch I've climbed in these mountains.

Route as seen from the descent

Looking up the route

Ridgeline from the final belay

Pitch 8 blocky terrain

Pitch 8 after the diagonal crack

Great diagonal finger crack on Pitch 8

approaching the belay ledge after a whole bunch of OW climbing on Pitch 7

Entering the flakes chimney.

Starting up towards the Pitch 5 chimney

Last move to the small but cozy pitch 4 ledge before the chimney

Looking down Pitch 4

Looking up pitch 1, look for obvious crack into a right facing corner

Route description (based on Dustysdawg's original description and added our personal input)

Picture Peak, NE Buttress topo

40 foot 4th class downclimb from the final belay to gain the summit ridgeline

Looking up at pitch 6. Sitting on top of the flakes on a huge, comfy belay ledge.

Looking down the great, full value Pitch 6

You can either go left up that little bulge

Looking up at pitch 4.

or right up a clean crack to gain the chimney

Looking up at pitch 5, the chimney pitch. This is the flakes feature that you are looking for from the ground.