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All Locations > Colorado > CO Ice & Mixed > RMNP - Mixed/Ice > Glacier Gorge T… > Loch Vale & uphill > Northwest Face Route… (WI3-4)
Brent approaching the first belay.
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Exit pitch on 11/07/09.
Looking up 3rd pitch 11/15/25.
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Ramo D
Oct 20, 2004
“Brent approaching the first belay.”  

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