We were pretty occupied during the climb up the couloir, so we didn't take a single photo of it until the climb down. Here, Bud has finished the couloir, and traversed across to the base of the west ridge. It's about 50 ft. of pretty exposed class 4 climbing from here up to the ridge top, but this is the last major obstacle between us and the summit. We knew we'd have to rappel down, but we lucked out and found a strong healthy rap anchor already in place under that very pointy outcrop to the rightish side of the ridge top.

Original Comments

Oops, lost her.
-- karen, 9/17/02

Sorry about that... Oh well, she was getting old anyway...
-- Bud, 9/17/02