The high exposure traverse to the right of the ridge that takes you to the easy hiking before the gnarly last towers. Many loose holds on this section!

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The high exposure traverse to the right of the ridge that takes you to the easy hiking before the gnarly last towers. Many loose holds on this section!

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More knife-edge!

Looking at Little Bear, about 1/4 of the way along <br>
the ridge.

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Caitlin Charlton

Jul 21, 2022

“The high exposure traverse to the right of the ridge that takes you to the easy hiking before the gnarly last towers. Many loose holds on this section!”

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Final steps up Blanca after a snowy traverse.<br>
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Photo by Jason Halladay.

The final section before reaching Blanca.

Enjoying lots of exposure along the LB/Blanca traverse. September 2007. Photo by Chris Johnson

One of the many downclimbs along the traverse.

Traverse as seen from the Little Bear summit on 1/29/11 just before we started the journey.

Clouds rolling in at the start of our traverse.

On Blanca looking back over ridge. 2+ hours on the ridge is a LONG time to completely focus on safe climbing

'Tightroping', 7/29/2020.

Just a *little* ridge... The traverse looking back from Blanca

Me on the snowy traverse in early June.<br>
<br>
Photo by Jason Halladay.

On LB, looking across gnarly traverse to Blanca. Clouds sweeping over Ellignwood's shoulder on the left

Chris Johnson dowclimbing off of the summit of Little Bear. I personally thought this was the crux of the climb...very high exposure and consequences for error

Robbie ignoring the exposure while working around one of the many towers on the ridge.

Dropping off the summit of Little Bear, looking at <br>
the ridge leading to Blanca...a long way off.

The traverse on August 22, 2004 (from Ellingwood)

Dropping down off the summit of Little Bear, this is trickier than it appears.

The full Little Bear/Blanca traverse as seen from Ellingwood Point. September 2007

Another section of tricky downclimbing before Cpt. Bivwacko Tower.

...about 3/4 of the way along the ridge. Little Bear <br>
in the distance.

On the ridge climbing the catwalk up to "tower 2".

Robbie shooting a GU to stay sharp on the knife ridge. LB in the distance

Monkey-boy swinging around another piece of exposed ridge, Lake Como far beneath in the basin

Climbing one of the many small towers along the <br>
ridge.

Chris Johnson downclimbing another knife edge along the ridge. This section was roughly 60% of the way from Little Bear.

Looking straight down from the LB/Blanca ridge. These are the cliffs on the south eastish side of the ridge.

More knife-edge!

The high exposure traverse to the right of the ridge that takes you to the easy hiking before the gnarly last towers. Many loose holds on this section!

Looking at Little Bear, about 1/4 of the way along <br>
the ridge.

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Caitlin Charlton

Fort Collins, CO