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Last stretch

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The summit ridge leading up to Mount Olympus. A rewarding view if you choose to go this way. I think this is Geurt's Ridge?

West Slabs from REI Parking lot

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Blake Summers

Oct 31, 2015

“Last stretch”

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North summit - 11/3/2010

This is the route I took to reach the south summit and hike down the trail.

Rachel on the West Slabs

Hazy view of the valley from the top of the west slabs

On the face

Please see comments for a description of the route.

Logan firing some speed on the slabz

Jess and Danny on West Slabs

Rattler on the summit. Watch where you drop your rack!

The summit ridge leading up to Mount Olympus. A rewarding view if you choose to go this way. I think this is Geurt's Ridge?

Last stretch

West Slabs from REI Parking lot

Halston going for the thin section.

Craig Gueck following pitch 2. The tree in the center is the belay for pitch 1.

The down climb gully is just as fun.

2007- On the slabs--One of my earliest climbs (note the ponytail)

Ian and Greg

Tony Tuttle cruisin the West Slab, somewhere around pitch3-4. Photo by Cmurdock

Sheila, Jen & Max top out

2007- ponytail intact and all. One of my earliest climbs (Photo by Charlie Stoker)

Moving along towards summit of the Mtn. (we may have stayed too high too long, apparently you can traverse to the right of the ridge crest and get to the final "cut" (gully) more easily than staying high)

"Last wall" to the true summit

The low point of the West Slabs where the climbing begins...

Craig Gueck at the belay station on top of pitch 2. The dihedral above him is the well protected pitch 3.

The top of the West Slabs. This pic is looking up the easier rock that we did unroped after 10 pitches. Probably about 2 pitches left worth of rock.

Belaying Amy from the top--the last pitch.

Looking up the descent gully. We descended the gully in 4 tree single-rope rappels (2 of the trees had slings). I am taking the picture at which point you have to decide to descend down the brushy way (west) or down the way you hike up.

Half way up

Bob, Sheila, Jen & Max on the summit, 2005. We stayed on the ridge crest and came down the rock behind and right of Max; apparently it's easier to traverse to the left of Bob !

Jen & Sheila approaching base

Starting the hike in

The descent: I found the gulley from the top of the ridge to the saddle (between the two drainages) to be the trickiest part. From the saddle you can bushwack the drainage (the right gulley in the pic) or hike down the drainage to the begining of the climb.

the great view overlooking east side of SLC

The third tree rappel down the gulley. Difficult to see, but the bottom of the descent gulley is at the top of the picture.

The view from a pitch up. This is taken from the tree belay mentioned on top of pitch 1.

Shivers (Lucas Johnson) on the summit of Mt. Olympus via the West Slabs

A look up the snow gulley leading to the west slabs