Hiking & Climbing PhotosLongs Peak - Kieners Route (II 5.4)
7/2/05
| (1) | | The sun began to rise as we geared up for the climb up Lambslide. |
| (2) | | Lambslide. |
| (3) | | The Diamond. |
| (4) | | Barry and Fabio climb Lambslide. |
| (5) | | Me on Lambslide. (Photo by Barry Raven.) |
| (6) | | Fabio downclimbs some steep snow on the beginning of Broadway. The exposure was dizzying. |
| (7) | | Instead of downclimbing the steep snow Barry and I chose to squeeze below this boulder. |
| (8) | | Barry traverses some more snow on the beginning of Broadway. |
| (9) | | Me on a snowy section of Broadway. (Photo by Barry Raven.) |
| (10) | | Me and Barry working our way across the snowy section of Broadway. (Photo by Fabio Somenzi.) |
| (11) | | Fabio negotiates the crux of Broadway. |
| (12) | | In this photo Barry and I have just taken off our crampons and stowed our iceaxes for the crux of Broadway. (Photo by Fabio Somenzi.) |
| (13) | | After failing to find Kieners Route we traversed all the way across Broadway. This was about as far as we got before we turned back to continue the search. |
| (14) | | Me on Broadway. (Photo by Barry Raven.) |
| (15) | | After retracing our steps we succeeded in finding the beginning of Kieners Route. Here Fabio pulls the crux moves of Kieners on the direct 5.5 start. In retrospect it probably would have been a good idea to rope up here. Notice the two climbers crossing Mills Glacier far below. |
| (16) | | Fabio climbs the second pitch of Kieners Route. |
| (17) | | Barry belays Fabio. |
| (18) | | Barry climbs up Kieners. By this point Fabio and I were pretty convinced that we were off route and needed to be much further to the right. |
| (19) | | Fabio near the Staircase. When we found the Staircase we knew we were back on route. A couple of class 5 moves up this and we were on the North Face. |
| (20) | | Me exiting the East Face onto the North Face. Somehow we missed the exposed mantle move that I'd heard about - or perhaps this was it. (Photo by Fabio Somenzi.) |
| (21) | | Barry, me, and Fabio on the summit. (Photo by Barry Raven.) |
| (22) | | View from the summit of The Palisades and Mount Meeker beyond. |
| (23) | | View of Keyboard of the Winds from the summit. |
| (24) | | Fabio begins the descent of the North Face. |
| (25) | | Fabio and Barry downclimb some steep snow and ice on the North Face. |
| (26) | | Barry raps down from the eye-bolts on the North Face. |
| (27) | | Fabio and Barry descend down to the Boulder Field with the Keyhole in the background. |
| (28) | | Fabio and Barry cross the Boulder Field. At this point all the challenges were behind us but the death march back to the car. At 17.5 hours car-to-car this broke my record for the longest day out in the hills. |
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