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Heading out to Snow class
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Snow Class (our Instructor - Jessica Baker -- http://exumguides.com/jessica-baker/)
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Snow Class
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Snow Class
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Snow Class
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Snow Class - Dude in cool shades is Pete, we'll be together for 3 days of class and the climb... Hi Pete!)
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Snow Class
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Snow Class (Pete)
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Climbing Class
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Climbing Class
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Climbing Class (rapel - -that's me)
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Climbing Class
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Climbing Class
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Climbing Class
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Climbing Class
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Climbing Class
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Climbing Class
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Rapeling
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Rapeling
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Rapeling
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Rapeling
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Day 1 (to the middle saddle)
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Day 1 (to the middle saddle)
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Day 1 (to the middle saddle)
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Day 1 (to the middle saddle)
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Day 1 (to the middle saddle)
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Day (1 to the middle saddle)
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Day 1 (to the middle saddle) The orange dot just left of middle top is me.
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Finally... middle saddle is in sight. Lowest point of skyline is day 1 destination.
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Up at 3:00 to attempt summit
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Starting to get a little light, but darker than the picture looks. The low area to the far right is where we left at 4:00
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Finally enough light to take in the view, still a good ways to go.
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Jackson Lake in the distance
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Morning sun on The Enclosure. Looking at it from across the upper saddle. (This is the second highest peak in the Tetons, and what we had to "settle" for when snow turned us back last time. I'm a little more impressed now, seeing it in clear weather)
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Prepping for the chimney after Belly Roll and the Crawl. You can see the north fork of Cascade Canyon in the background.
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Proof! (touched the benchmark :) )
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View from the summit
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View from the summit
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View from the summit
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(You won't see too many selfies from me, but this one seemed worth it
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More proof
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View from the summit (looking south)
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Looking north
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Looking down on Jenny Lake
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Looking South (can see Death Canyon shelf)
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View of Death Canyon shelf, Alaska Basin, Battleship Mountain
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The Crawl, looking down into South Fork of Cascade canyon (2000 ft exposure <gulp>)
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About to start chimney after the crawl
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That's Pete... my partner through all three days aof class and the climb
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Our guide
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Our Guide, setting anchor for the repel
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Pete traversing to rapel
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Starting the rapel
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rapelling :)
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rapelling...
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Another view of the enclosure from across the upper saddlee
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Our guide's phone made it down *much* quicker than he did... proof that it's better to take it slow
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Looking back at the rapel
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Getting back down is no walk in the park
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more descent
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A long ways to the base
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Almost home
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Cool image showing parts of the Owens-Spalding route annotated (see http://wyomingwhiskey.blogspot.com/p/the-grand-tetons-owen-spalding-route.html for a lot more of these if you're interested in the route)
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