Upper North Buttress

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Upper North Buttress

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From the suspected FFFA (first free floatie ascent) of DNB Merriam Peak with Tim Opsahl on Sep 1, 2019.

From the suspected FFFA (first free floatie ascent) of DNB Merriam Peak with Tim Opsahl on Sep 1, 2019.

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Ken Trout

Feb 11, 2009

“Upper North Buttress”

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fun ridge climbing

Milky Way behind Merriam Peak. Sept 17 2017

Merriam Peak

The Route.

Merriam Peak's North Buttress at sunset

The TOPO.

FFA of Merriam Peak (First Floatie Ascent)

Bruce Lella starting the crux hand crack. The quality of this crack makes up for the loose sections below.<br>
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July, 2007, we day-tripped it from Paradise.

Chris Orozco following the exceptional "Triple Cracks" pitch

The Triple Crack Pitch (5).

Merriam's North Buttress

From the suspected FFFA (first free floatie ascent) of DNB Merriam Peak with Tim Opsahl on Sep 1, 2019.

Upper North Buttress

From the suspected FFFA (first free floatie ascent) of DNB Merriam Peak with Tim Opsahl on Sep 1, 2019.

sweet

Crux pitch

From the suspected FFFA (first free floatie ascent) of DNB Merriam Peak with Tim Opsahl on Sep 1, 2019.

Looking up to really fun crack system. About 5.9.

Sunset on the DNB!

P8 traverse under roof block

P7 off width S-curve

Triple cracks pitch

Triple cracks pitch

Part of the class 3-4 summit ridge.

First pitch.

Heading up from lower Royce lake

Greg D following pitch 1. Pitch 1 is a really sweet, clean finger crack (though the first bit is chossy ledges).

nice

Looking down from about halfway through the route.

Looking up from the start. Slightly convoluted.

Pitch 2

Looking down the summit ridge toward the North Buttress from the true summit.

Climbed the triple cracks and 1/2 of the next pitch to the nice ledge. Seemed like a good move to avoid the alcove belay?

Kelvin near the top of Pitch 6

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