Highlights of the Ptarmigan Traverse


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Traversing below Mixup Peak.  
Not a place you want to slip.

 

Kool-Aid Lake camp

Our Kool-Aid Lake camp in the morning, looking back North -- just above the clouds.

Steve coming through Art's Knoll

Steve coming through the Art's Knoll crux, with Dave just behind.

Traversing toward the Middle Cascade glacier

Traversing toward (and above) the Middle Cascade Glacier

Mt LeConte -- complex terrain  

Camp at Yang-Yang Lakes -- with wild terrain around Mt LeConte
 -- where will we go from here?

climbing to the shoulder of Mt LeConte -- steep below  

Topping out from the couloir

climbing to the shoulder of Mt LeConte

and continuing up and over the shoulder of Mt LeConte

Spider-Formidable col from South  

Looking back to Spider-Formidable col . . . 

How did we get from there to here?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Traversing to the LeConte Glacier

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