This is where you can bail from the notch, end of pitch 4. The cord was fixed.

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This is where you can bail from the notch, end of pitch 4. The cord was fixed.

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Looking down from the Whitney-Russell col to Iceberg Lake.

the notch after the 5.8 downclimb (basically a set of 2 short boulder problems, the second of which is in the left of the photo)

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Jay Bird

Aug 18, 2019

“This is where you can bail from the notch, end of pitch 4. The cord was fixed.”

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