Route Overlay SE Buttress.

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Route Overlay SE Buttress.

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The ledge traverse to the base of Pitch 5.

Pitch 8.

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Route Overlay SE Buttress.

Pitch 8.

Looking down Pitch 9. Climb the offwidth or fingercrack.

Offwidth on Pitch 9. Most climbers bypass the offwidth for a fingercrack about 4 feet to the right.

Pitches 6-7 follow 5.7 blocks and cracks to the base of the headwall.

Chimney on the upper part of Pitch 5.

Cathedral Peak from Upper Cathedral Lake. SE Buttress on right skyline.

On the summit!

The section on the descent that you either jump across or downclimb an exposed section a bit to make an easy step across. In the photo Janet is doing the downclimb rather than the jump across.

Pitch 4 starts somewhere in here.

Pitch 3.

Pitch 2.

Pitch 1.

Pitch 1.

The route starts ~150 feet up the Cathedral-Monk gully.

Approaching Cathedral SE Buttress.

Pitch 10.

Quartz dike at the end of Pitch 4.

The easy scree descent back to Upper Cathedral Lake. ~40 minutes from summit to camp at the lake.

Pitch 5.

The 1st headwall pitch and possibly the first traffic jam ever on the route

The ledge traverse to the base of Pitch 5.