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The P4 rightward traverse to a lovely hand crack
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The spectacular final pitch.
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Jeff Hebert
Aug 29, 2016
“The P4 rightward traverse to a lovely hand crack”  

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The P4 rightward traverse to a lovely hand crack
The spectacular final pitch.
Jake leonard starting up P2.
Yuval B earning maximum style points on the final traverse pitch
Janet climbing the wild (and steep!) knobby face.This is the mental crux of the route (at least for me), as you need to go about 15 feet on knobs and around the crest before you can set a piece. The technical crux is around where I set the green alien in the photo (midway through the crack). The crack takes good gear. Our highest piece before the crack petered out was a 0.75 cam. A yellow alien above the crux-protecting green alien is also nice to have.
This was taken from just below the 5.6 downclimb from the top of Aasgard Sentinel. The standard descent is to hike up this slope to the Enchantment Peak Plateau and then romp back down to Aasgard Pass and back to your packs at the base of the route.
Janet on top of Aasgard Sentinel. Both Acid Baby and The Valkyrie share the same final pitch and both top out here. The 5.6 downclimb is on the right side of the tower where the rope is.
On the final fin traverse to the top of Aasgard Sentinel. Final pitch is shared by Acid Baby and The Valkyrie. Photo by Janet Arendall.
Pitch 2
Ethan Fitzpatrick leading pitch four (with style)
Looking up Pitch 2 of The Valkyrie. Goes right from the belay, then up a crack to lieback offwidth (#5 cam might fit).
Taking a break in the late afternoon sun from descent after climbing The Valkyrie. Photo by Janet Arendall.