Looking straight down the rap line on the Maiden Rappel. Yee-ha!

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Looking straight down the rap line on the Maiden Rappel. Yee-ha!

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Bill Wright checks out the variation on pitch 5 of the East Ridge. At this point the regular route traverses up and right.

East Ridge, P1.<br>
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Photo: Kuba Musial, Aug. 2014.

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George Bell

May 20, 2002

“Looking straight down the rap line on the Maiden Rappel. Yee-ha!”

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Looking straight down the rap line on the Maiden Rappel. Yee-ha!

East Ridge, P1.<br>
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Photo: Kuba Musial, Aug. 2014.

The photo doesn't do justice to the spectacular rap.

At the arete, if you're tall enough, you can maneuver your feet and reach up to a one joint finger hold. Then traverse left back to the 3rd bolt along the slightly rising thin horizontal crack. If you're too short, the move at the arete must be pretty hard. In any case, a fall from here would be ugly, since the bolt is about 10' to the left.

Topping out on the 5.10b section of pitch 3, Aug. 2014.

A different angle on the tricky crux move.

Fighting through the first bulge...

Checking out the West Overhang 5.11a, maybe next time...

Montage shot of the route and rappel, very cool position from start to finish.

P4 (we belayed at the notch then did the rest as 2 shorter pitches).

Matt on P2.

Matt rounding the corner on P3.

Warren Teissier follows the variation to the 5th pitch on the East Ridge of the Maiden.

George Bell topping out on the first pitch.

Headless Bill Wright moves right after clipping the first 2 bolts on the 3rd pitch of the East Ridge of the Maiden (the third bolt is in line with the other 2 but is almost invisible in this photo).

Bill Wright topping out on the second pitch, East Ridge of the Maiden.

Matt on P5a.

Matt about to hit the summit.

At the end of the crux on the 3rd pitch. South Crack (5.11c) can be seen to the left.

Fatiron from The Maiden.

Jo follows the 2nd pitch of the East Ridge of the Maiden. Photo by Tony Bubb.

Leading P3 (10a or so). Move right precariously to this point, up, then back left on good holds.

Near the top of P1, with P2 (5.7) and P3 (10a or so) visible.

Near the top of P1.

P1, 10c or so, much harder than it looks.

Matt starts P5a (we split the last pitch into 2 shorter ones to avoid rope drag).

Moving right to the arete on P3. It's easy to link P2 and P3, but there's a bit of drag after you move around the arete on the left. Linking the two pitches makes the moves off the P2 belay safer, since more rope is out.

The view east.

Taken from the belay on South Crack.

No summit sea monkeys today, just frozen bubbles.

Bill Wright starting the crux of the variation to pitch 5, East Ridge of the Maiden.

Afternoon light; P1 is the crack near the right side of the formation.

On the 5.7 variation to the first pitch. Worth doing if you have done the 5.10 first pitch before.

Kuba navigating through some tricky climbing on pitch 3, Aug. 2014.

P1 crack behind the tree.

East Ridge. Kuba Musial on the exposed pitch 5.

Bill Wright begins to move left after making the reach up to the high horizontal crack. From the angle of the rope, one can see a fall from here would not be fun. This photo is about 4' farther right than the last.

CT making P1 look like 5.9.

Bill Wright checks out the variation on pitch 5 of the East Ridge. At this point the regular route traverses up and right.

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