Almost done. Not the best rock, but it was a hell of an experience being up there. Beautiful walls, a line that calls to you from miles away, great exposure, and exciting ridge climbing. No idea why, but I felt compelled to solo this from the moment I saw it.

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Almost done. Not the best rock, but it was a hell of an experience being up there. Beautiful walls, a line that calls to you from miles away, great exposure, and exciting ridge climbing. No idea why, but I felt compelled to solo this from the moment I saw it.

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soloing the marsupial traverse in 2010

The line I trail behind for rappelling wrapped around the crux traverse. This was not a good thing to solo.

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Sean Patrick

Dec 15, 2012

“Almost done. Not the best rock, but it was a hell of an experience being up there. Beautiful walls, a line that calls to you from miles away, great exposure, and exciting ridge climbing. No idea why, but I felt compelled to solo this from the moment I saw it.”

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The Marsupials Traverse Objectives (right to left)

The Marsupial Traverse...

The full extent as seen from the Koala

Cliff leading pitch one (crux?) of the Marsupials Traverse.

Belaying atop the Opposum

Gabe climbing out of the notch (after Mini Half Dome and on the way up to Brogan Spire)

Jay finds just enough shade to cover his face while Sara and James get ready to head up Brogan Spire.

Looking up at the rappel off of Mini Half Dome. Our first attempt was to rap to the left (climber's right), but *our rope got stuck* so Jay went back up and rapped to the right (climber's left) as seen in this photo.

soloing the marsupial traverse in 2010

Almost done. Not the best rock, but it was a hell of an experience being up there. Beautiful walls, a line that calls to you from miles away, great exposure, and exciting ridge climbing. No idea why, but I felt compelled to solo this from the moment I saw it.

The line I trail behind for rappelling wrapped around the crux traverse. This was not a good thing to solo.

Perfect January day at Smith

Gabe after crossing the ridge from the Mud Pile to the Unnamed Rock before Mini Half Dome

Looking from the summit of Brogan Spire down the very runout 5.5x West Ridge - heads up climbing in a cool position.

Start of Pitch 1/Carla the stripper. Moving past the first 2 bolts of this pitch was the hardest part of the entire traverse for me. Photo by Yuxin Sun.

Halfway through the traverse, me following Jack & Yuxin

Belaying from up on the Opposum, looking back towards Brogan Spire

high on the marsupials traverse, part 2

high on the marsupials traverse

the day I decided to finally solo the marsupial traverse

Jack leading up pitch 3 I think. April 2023, it was cold and blustery that day

The traverse from the Mudpile to Mini Halfdome

waiting my turn

Belay station on the Mudpile

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