Looking down at the meadow from the slope of the true summit.

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Looking down at the meadow from the slope of the true summit.

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Looking down the Cowboy Ridge from the start of the upper ridge.

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Michael Schneiter

Mar 28, 2016

“Looking down at the meadow from the slope of the true summit.”

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Looking down at the meadow from the slope of the true summit.

Looking down the Cowboy Ridge from the start of the upper ridge.

Overview of route with approximate location of ascent in yellow and descent in blue.

Looking up the ridge from low on the route.

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Mount Kinesava and "Cowboy Ridge" (the obvious ridge on the light/shadow line)

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Her exalted highness demonstrates how the big horn sheep run across the panel in a herd...

The pitch leading up to the 5.7 hand crack.

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Scrambling midway up Cowboy Ridge.

Approaching the ridge. Arrow points to where we got on the ridge, which had a lot of tracks and seemed to be a good place to get on.

View from the south summit and looking at true summit and Kinesava with arrow pointing to location of petroglyph panel.

looking back at Kinesava after the descent

Exposed and slightly spicy little traverse and upclimb where the ridge becomes a little more serious.

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On the route.

the handcrack

Leading the 5.7 hand crack, still in approach shoes

approx route

Looking east across the meadow, the top of the descent gully is at the pine, left of the two pointed rock towers.

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Descending, just below the meadow.

The top of the descent with the deep, 3 foot wide chimney on the right.

view from early in the descent

True alpine

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eastern views

Ridge scrambling

looking east

choss hopping

The ridge looking good from the approach

where the harder Kinesava routes are

Fun day out

the ridge

looking toward the west

summit plateau views

Our GPS-backed line. Approach: Cl 4 to low 5th through two cliff bands (LT). Descent: Cl 3 through cairns on the ridge and avoided the cliff bands via a gully (RT). Recommended to approach via our descent.

Zack and Chris heading up the final section to reach the hand crack

on the descent

Looking up the beautiful ridge

one of the chimney sections (with bit of 4th at the top)

Just as you get on the ridge with the entire climb seen.

Zack making his way to the ledge below the crux hand crack

approaching the summit from the right side

approximate line

the large tunnel-behind flake just before the handcrack

the summit bump

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