Looking down the Cowboy Ridge from the start of the upper ridge.

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Looking down the Cowboy Ridge from the start of the upper ridge.

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Looking down at the meadow from the slope of the true summit.

The pitch leading up to the 5.7 hand crack.

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john durr

Nov 13, 2009

“Looking down the Cowboy Ridge from the start of the upper ridge.”

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Looking down at the meadow from the slope of the true summit.

Looking down the Cowboy Ridge from the start of the upper ridge.

The pitch leading up to the 5.7 hand crack.

Looking up the ridge from low on the route.

Chris Lambert soloing the chimney pitch.

topo.

The ridge looking good from the approach

Our GPS-backed line. Approach: Cl 4 to low 5th through two cliff bands (LT). Descent: Cl 3 through cairns on the ridge and avoided the cliff bands via a gully (RT). Recommended to approach via our descent.

Mount Kinesava and "Cowboy Ridge" (the obvious ridge on the light/shadow line)

The epic handcrack pitch!

Nearing the top of the 5.7 hand crack pitch .

view from the descent

Looking down the dragons tail

the start gully

Overview of route with approximate location of ascent in yellow and descent in blue.

Scrambling midway up Cowboy Ridge.

View from the south summit and looking at true summit and Kinesava with arrow pointing to location of petroglyph panel.

Approaching the ridge. Arrow points to where we got on the ridge, which had a lot of tracks and seemed to be a good place to get on.

summit plateau views

Zack and Chris heading up the final section to reach the hand crack

looking back at Kinesava after the descent

view from early in the descent

The top of the descent with the deep, 3 foot wide chimney on the right.

Exposed and slightly spicy little traverse and upclimb where the ridge becomes a little more serious.

the summit bump

On the route.

looking toward the west

one of the chimney sections (with bit of 4th at the top)

the ridge

where the harder Kinesava routes are

choss hopping

Looking up the beautiful ridge

approaching the summit from the right side

approx route

Looking up at the ridge as we start up it pre sunrise. It was beautiful to watch while climbing!

Fun day out

Looking east across the meadow, the top of the descent gully is at the pine, left of the two pointed rock towers.

Descending, just below the meadow.

Ridge climbing.

Just as you get on the ridge with the entire climb seen.

Chimney Scramble (Widest of the 3)

on the descent

Jump!

Leading the 5.7 hand crack, still in approach shoes

looking east

Zack making his way to the ledge below the crux hand crack

Ridge scrambling

approximate line

True alpine

Start hike from Chinle TH in the Anasazi subdivision

Echinocereus coccineus?

the handcrack

West Temple

the large tunnel-behind flake just before the handcrack

eastern views

Here's Andy making Utah Tech gang signs as he wraps up the 5.7 hand crack. I built an anchor using the rope, a sturdy bush, and a #1 in a sandy pod behind and left on the bush.

more views to the west

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