Summit Climb - Total time to make the summit was approximately 3 hours. The four rappel descent took approximately 45 minutes.
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Pitch A - Bowling Alley (110 ft.)

No pictures - Mostly rock scrambling

Pitch B - Traverse

No pictures - Mostly rock scrambling

Pitch 1 - Leaning Column (80 ft.)
(start of main technical pitches)


Looking up the Leaning Column pitch


The mountain's shadow in the early sunrise


Andy at the top of the Leaning Column


Waiting at the bottom of the Leaning Column pitch


Beautiful sunrise from the top of the Leaning Column


Panaramic view from the Leaning Column


Starting up the Leaning Column.





Almost there

Pitch 2 - Durrance Crack (72 ft.)


Andy at the top of the Durrance Crack


Andy at the top of the Durrance Crack looking down at me standing on the top of the Leaning Column


A zoomed-in view of me still waiting to climb


A panoramic view of me at the base of the second pitch


I've finally started the pitch, which I always felt was the crux of the climb and the one that made me the most nervous





Almost there. Here I am trying to remove one of the cam protection devices. On all the pitches, I would collect each piece of protection that Andy put out. This last part of the pitch was the toughest for me and took the greatest amount of time. I had to try to wedge my body sideways in the large crack and use friction pressure on the rock to ascend. There was only one tiny flake for a foot hold but it always seemed to be an inch higher than I could reach. The only handhold was well within the crack but could not use it once my body was wedged in sideways. This was the only part of the climb where I actually took a "fall" (twice actually) when my foot slipped off of the rock.


FINALLY!!

Pitch 3 - Cussing Crack (30 ft.)


Andy at the top of the Cussing Crack


Andy looking down at me at the bottom of the pitch


Another panoramic view of me waiting to climb


On my way....


Now a little traverse to the right, but the exposure was a little too much for me to look down at.


Just a short crack to climb to the end of the pitch



Pitch 4 - Flake Crack (40 ft.)


Looking up the Flake Crack

Pitch 5 - Chockstone Crack (40 ft.)


Andy at the top of the Chockstone Crack


Me at the base of the crack



Up and over

Pitch 6 - Jump Traverse (15 ft.)

No Pictures

Pitch 7 - The Meadows Traverse (200+ feet to the summit)
The Meadows Traverse was essentially a traverse hike and then some vertical rock scrambling to the top.


Andy heading up the vertical part of the Meadows Traverse



Nearing the last bit before the finish

Summit (5112 ft.)


Do the Dew.....


Andy Petefish

Rappel #1 (120 ft.)



Rappel #2 (140 ft.)


Rappel #3 (140 ft.)



Rappel #4 (140 ft.)