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Harder slab option (No Saints Left) on Pitch 5 of the South Arete route. The guidebook describes an easier way but somehow we ended up here.
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We went a bit too high on Pitch 3/4 of St. Vitus' Dance, pulled a hard move (bolt) up a headwall, and arrived at a ledge with a bolt anchor, hence joining the South Arete route.
Start of P1 of South Arete (after first two pitches of St Vitus/Calculus). This is what the crack looks like behind all the trees.
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Steph Abegg
Jun 4, 2017
“Harder slab option (No Saints Left) on Pitch 5 of the South Arete route. The guidebook describes an easier way but somehow we ended up here.”  

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Harder slab option (No Saints Left) on Pitch 5 of the South Arete route. The guidebook describes an easier way but somehow we ended up here.
Start of P1 of South Arete (after first two pitches of St Vitus/Calculus). This is what the crack looks like behind all the trees.
Belay of P2 looking at the top of the climb. We reached from below bulge to these anchors with a 70m no problem. Marked approximately where the rap anchors are, just behind the bulge, a few steps down from the tree folks usually anchor if continuing up.
Look for this at the bottom of the "jungle pitch," the second half of P2 in the description. The narrow trail up is straight up from the sling, but it's easier to go R around the vegetation
This is technically P1 of St. Bernard. P2 of South Arete is to the left of this.
Looking up from where I belayed at P2.
Crack that starts off Pitch 5 of the South Arete route.
We went a bit too high on Pitch 3/4 of St. Vitus' Dance, pulled a hard move (bolt) up a headwall, and arrived at a ledge with a bolt anchor, hence joining the South Arete route.
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