| Type: | Trad, Alpine, 1000 ft (303 m), 7 pitches, Grade III |
| GPS: | 40.3033, -105.686 |
| FA: | Eli Helmuth & Bernie Niznik |
| Page Views: | 357 total · 8/month |
| Shared By: | Dylan Valvo on Aug 8, 2022 |
| Admins: | Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC |
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Description
Like with many of the climbs on Hallett, we thought we were on route the entire time… yet things didn’t add up. We wound up simul-climbing a good bit throughout the route, so maybe we went past the belay with the pin. Pitch length might also be off because of this.
Pitch 1: climb grassy ledges angling up and rightward to the bottom of a right-facing corner system, 200’+.
Pitch 2: traverse out right across face, and enter a long, left-facing corner. Follow this to ledges, 200’.
Pitch 3: cut left across the face aiming for the prow with a large roof. Make a belay near a left-facing dihedral. We accidentally went too far, wound up next to the KT chimney, and had to go back right to gain a corner, 300’.
Pitch 4: climb the corner to the end of a ramp, 100’.
Pitch 5: continue up easy terrain cutting left to gain the upper KT chimney, 100’.
Pitch 6: climb the deep chimney with fun stemming, and cut left through giant tunnel onto platform under a headwall, 200’.
Pitch 7: climb the short but beautiful headwall using a super fun finger crack to the summit, 100’.
Location
The start is located right of low overhangs that begin after the right side of the NCC rock scar. You can look up and see the large, left-facing corner discussed in pitch 2.



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