the start gully

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the start gully

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Looking down the dragons tail

Scrambling midway up Cowboy Ridge.

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Nov 20, 2016

“the start gully”

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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.

The pitch leading up to the 5.7 hand crack.

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

topo.

The ridge looking good from the approach

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

view from the descent

Looking down the dragons tail

the start gully

Scrambling midway up Cowboy Ridge.

Mike Toffey leading the handcrack pitch

Mike Toffey nearing the top of the 5.7 hand crack.

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.

view from early in the descent

looking back at Kinesava after the descent

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

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

On the route.

Jump!

Looking up the beautiful ridge

where the harder Kinesava routes are

choss hopping

Echinocereus coccineus?

approx route

Ridge climbing.

summit plateau views

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

the ridge

Chimney Scramble (Widest of the 3)

looking toward the west

True alpine

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

Fun day out

the summit bump

Leading the 5.7 hand crack, still in approach shoes

Start hike from Chinle TH in the Anasazi subdivision

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.

more views to the west

on the descent

the handcrack

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

eastern views

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

West Temple

approximate line

looking east

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

Ridge scrambling

approaching the summit from the right side

Descending, just below the meadow.

Christian Lambert soloing the chimney pitch.

the large tunnel-behind flake just before the handcrack