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In the Brush beside Bachelor Creek |
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The verdant hillside above Bachelor Creek. |
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Mark punching through snow on a talus field before Cub Lake. |
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Cliffs below Spire Point. |
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Glacier Peak in the distance looking south. |
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Hydramatic Spire with its distinct "cannonhole". Rock is excellent granite. We didn't climb it but wanted to. |
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This was one of our objectives. A first ascent of the S. Ridge of Snowdome Peak a neighbor of Dome. |
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This is on the second pitch of the S.ridge climb up Snowdome. One of the 5.8 cruxes is moving up and left of the roof you see in the picture. |
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This is from higher on the route. You can see the west face of N. Peak of Gunsight over Mark's right arm. We ascended the main peak the next day. |
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This is the beginning of the crux of the climb. A 5.9ish hand crack up onto a ledge. You can see Hydramatic spire framed perfectly between Marks Arms |
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Mark on the Summit of Snowdome peak |
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Robert on the summit of Snowdome Peak |
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Our tent from high on a adjacent spire. I could jump and land on it. There are some stellar classic 5.10ish cracks up this spire. |
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This is the beginning of our Gunsight climb beginning the descent of the Chikamin glacier. |
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Having descended most of the glacier, the Chikamin looms behind. |
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Looking back up the Chikamin at the S.ridge route on Snowdome. We climbed the left hand skyline. |
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Traversing around the backside of Gunsight peak. This is the backside of the S. Peak. Excellent rock here. |
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After we found the E.Face route of the main peak described in the Nelson guide gone we ascended the s. face to the E. ridge where this shot was taken. |
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Mark making the final moves to the Gunsight summit. The last party to sign the summit register was a NOLs group the year before. |
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Heading home back down the Dome glacier. |
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