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| Topo for dark star. Temple Crag |
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| Dark Star is in yellow on the right. |
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| No pen in the register. Fortunately I had a Swiss Army knife. |
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| Summit with register. |
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| Gendarms! |
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| Wes after traversing yet another tower. |
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| Wes traversing around a tower. |
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| One of many knifeblade ridge sections |
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| Great exposure on the upper sections. |
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| Start of pitch 7. |
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| Pitch 10, 8++ |
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| Wes at top of 5th pitch chimney. |
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| 10” crystal near the anatomical middle of the 1st Dark Star Buttress. Great view of Sun Goddess Aręte from here. Near the top of Dark Star is a big red face, blushing?
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| Wes following 3rd pitch (10a) |
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| Gerwe following 1st pitch (full value 10b) |
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| Dark Star is laden with White Crystals |
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| Short 5.6ish section near the start of the approach pitches |
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| Dark Star, David Gerwe on the start of pitch 10. The belay he constructed is marked with a circle and the blue line is the roof on the next pitch (11). I thought this was 10b & I almost pitch off this one too! :) |
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| Dark Star Pitch 10 Begins here. The hand drawn topo showed features that we found here. The beginning is marked by a great belayers seat with backrest. (inside the circle) I thought this pitch was tricky 10a. :) |
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| Looking back at some towers atop the Middle Buttress of Dark Star. |
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| We skipped the first set of rappels and just downclimbed the section without any problem. However, we found it better to rappel the second set than downclimb. I tried to sketch out a topo for the rappels b/c it's a bit confusing. |
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| Lots of simul-climbing on the ridge!! |
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| Snack time for me at the top of the first headwall |
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