Jamie and I climbed the W ridge of Stuart in 1 day from the car.
We left the trail head about 3am, summitted about 3pm, and were back
to the trailhead just before 9pm.
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Stuart in early morning light. |
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Outlet of Ingals Lake. |
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Start of the gullys. |
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Better photo of the start of first gully. |
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Top of gully, just before we exited to right. |
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Next gully, Long John Tower in middle. |
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Jamie climbing chimney out of gully. |
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Back down a ramp to cross rib to next gully. |
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Next gully, up left side, cross ledge on cliff face. |
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Jamie walking up to tunel entrance. |
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LJT from tunel entrance. |
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Jamie soing into tunel. |
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Tom in middle. |
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The ledge. |
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Exiting the far side. |
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Easier ledges to the west ridge notch. |
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Jamie on steep snow. |
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This is where the roped climbing starts. Hard to make anytying out of this photo. |
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Now we are on the final pitch, which was harder than 5.4. |
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Snow field below the false summit. |
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Finally nearing the bottom of the cascadian couliar |
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This is the very bottom of the cascadian couliar trail |
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Mountain from near the base. |
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MOuntain from further away. |
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Sherpa Pk. |
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Argonot. |