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| Winds blowing snow off of Monti Cristo. |
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| Tanner's Gulch, Dromedary Peak (hidden by middle tree), Sunrise Peak (middle), O'Sullivans (middle left) and Broads Fork Twins (far left). |
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| The Pfeif and its notorious access ridge. It's really not too bad. Plenty of holds and negligible exposure. Even with new snow the crossing felt safe. |
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| Low clouds rolling in from Utah Lake. Box Elder Peak (near) and Timpanogos in the distance (middle left). |
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| Lone Peak is the 'W' shaped peak in the middle (on skyline) and upper Hogum Fork (head-wall on right and shadowed cliffs. Airplane Peak is the near peak in the middle, named for a a crash on its flanks in the 1950's (?) killing 12 people, and not found until the following spring when the winter snow melted. |
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| Summit of the Pfeiferhorn overlooking Utah County, hidden in clouds. |
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| Selfy on the summit. I hate selfies but had to prove I summited the Pfeif. I read somewhere that people who take a lot of selfies are prone to be sociopaths. I love people! Sure glad no one else is here! |
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| Timpenogos. |
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| Upper Maybird Gulch from the summit of the Pfeiferhorn. |
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| Broads Fork Twins. |
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| The infamous NW Couloir (ski run) of the Pfeiferhorn. Down in the shadowed choke there are two bolts, an anchor to rappel a 40-foot cliff, with your skis on. |
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| Hoar frost on the summit blocks. |
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| The access ridge straight ahead and upper Maybird Gulch (shadowed cliffs). |
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| Looking back at my tracks on the summit headwll. |
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| Don't slip! A bit of exposure on the ridge. |
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| Red Pine Lake and Little Cottonwood Canyon. |
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| Red Pine Lake with Sunrise Peak peeking through the clouds. |
Nice pics of both the Pfeiferhorn and Lone Peak. I have been on the Pfeiferhorn only twice, once on snow climbing the East Ridge and once in winter - I think you lead all the hard bits on the Northeast Ridge. Something about a rock hard Power Bar sticks in my mind. I have been on top of Lone Peak three times. The cirque is absolutely spectacular. It was nice to pics of it again - but I would have to walk, running Lone Peak would kill me.
ReplyDeleteBrett, always whining about old age and how slow you are, but whenever we go, I have to work my ass off just to keep up. And me leading the 5.1-ish north ridge of the Pfriferhorn in winter is laughable. You led Sasquach and I could barely clean it. Who know's? I probably left a cam or two....
DeleteThis is true, there have been some outings where you were lagging a bit. You just left out the part where on those rare occasions where you were sucking wind, you were recovering from the flu, an injury, or some other such malady...
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