Harvey Carter's notes on the climb written the day after the first ascent.

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Harvey Carter's notes on the climb written the day after the first ascent.

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Our route to avoid the fallen section. We went for the large, credit card looking slot on the far right (covered by the red line) which was a fun squeeze chimney then hooked back left traversing over the gash and back onto the "route".

August 14, 1999. This must be soon after the rockfall happened. I climbed the route on July 14, 1999, so it happened sometime in the prior month. I feel lucky to have climbed the original route!

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Harvey Carter's notes on the climb written the day after the first ascent.

August 14, 1999. This must be soon after the rockfall happened. I climbed the route on July 14, 1999, so it happened sometime in the prior month. I feel lucky to have climbed the original route!

Direct start beta photo.

Photo taken from Flattop Mtn mere minutes after the 1999 rockfall that took out the original route.

Pitch 2 direct start. Excellent climbing.

Photo overlay of Northcutt-Carter.

My variation. At the top of the left-facing dihedral, there is a small roof getting up to the dashed line. The dashed line is a ledge to enter the chimney. Finally, I stayed a little bit lower and did not go over the obvious flake (easy face climbing).

P6. Mikey Tenant. 1996.

Alternate start for Northcutt-Carter.

Pitch 6, climbing into the band of blocky red rock.

Pitch 5 roof. The standard belay is below this roof, not above it.

Pitch 3 above the traverse left. We climbed this part as part of pitch 4 because of rope drag from the traverse.

Pitch 2 (second half) of the direct start. 10b crux pulls through the double overhangs in some way.

$Pitch 1 direct start climbs along the margin of the white fractured rockfall zone. There might another option to the right of this pitch that ends at the same spot.$

Look for the splitter that is the start of pitch 2 of the direct start to the right of the rockfall scar.

West gully descent entrance.

Pitch 3 traverse beta.

Our route to avoid the fallen section. We went for the large, credit card looking slot on the far right (covered by the red line) which was a fun squeeze chimney then hooked back left traversing over the gash and back onto the "route".

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