Thursday, July 19, 2007

Little Swiss

Humm.. what the weather can do. dont feel like writting much so here are some photos...

10 days in the range change to 7 after a long wait in Talkeetna.
Finally heading in:

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First night in we ran up the middle Troll, the classic 5.8 line out of base camp.

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After that we mulled around in the fog and rain then tried the Throne a big peak with another 5.8 line on the south east face.

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it rained and snowed so we bailed
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The next day was better, still snowed on us but we made it up despite a challenging summit ridge.
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Back down!

Spent the rest of the time trying to get up stuff in the rain and mulling about eating pesto..

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Nick and Sam our new friends provided us with the most kick ass pancakes our last morning on the pika before Danielle picked us up.

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Can't wait to go back!

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