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Lone Peak Cirque – Rock Climbing

Lone Peak Cirque – Rock Climbing

| August 18, 2008 | 5 Comments

Lone Peak Cirque in the Wasatch Mountains is Utah’s version of the Grand Teton.  It is a long approach to get there (5,000′ of uphill on loose dirt), it tops out at around 11,300′ and it has some of the best, cleanest granite in all of the state.  As if the multi-hour approach wasn’t hard […]

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Sunday Photo – Lost Arrow Spire

Sunday Photo – Lost Arrow Spire

| August 3, 2008 | 3 Comments

Setting up a Tyrolean Traverse (as pictured below) is often logistically harder than the actual climbing involved to get there.  In this case, Lost Arrow Spire in Yosemite Valley, Rick Lovelace and I hiked to the valley’s rim, rappelled from the fixed anchors on the right-hand side of the photo down into the notch between […]

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