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All Locations > Washington > Northwest Region > Hwy 20 & N Casc… > N Cascades > Washington Pass > Liberty Bell Group > Lexington Tower > E Face (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a)
Erica Engle at the end of the traverse of the "Ominous" Roof pitch - Pitch 5 in Ian's guidebook. Erica has chosen to climb it as a handrail. You can also walk the ledge she has her hands on. The harder part of this pitch is actually right above Erica - pulling into a layback on a slopey flake. Good pro.
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Standing on the "bivvy platform", and the traverse climbers right from there to where the descent begins (Didn't see a pic of this part in the site). Credit: Eric Whittaker.
Your "summit" ledge. Descent is to the gully on the left, not the farther right one. We used a short handrail off the tree to get into it.
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Mike Lewis
Sep 28, 2015
“Erica Engle at the end of the traverse of the "Ominous" Roof pitch - Pitch 5 in Ian's guidebook. Erica has chosen to climb it as a handrail. You can also walk the ledge she has her hands on. The harder part of this pitch is actually right above Erica - pulling into a layback on a slopey flake. Good pro.”  

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Standing on the "bivvy platform", and the traverse climbers right from there to where the descent begins (Didn't see a pic of this part in the site). Credit: Eric Whittaker.
Erica Engle at the end of the traverse of the "Ominous" Roof pitch - Pitch 5 in Ian's guidebook. Erica has chosen to climb it as a handrail. You can also walk the ledge she has her hands on. The harder part of this pitch is actually right above Erica - pulling into a layback on a slopey flake. Good pro.
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Erica Engle getting ready to step right onto a hidden (from belayer's sight) ledge that traverses right. This ledge can be climb as a handrail, or walked along like a Thank God Ledge, or both - making a transition from one climbing style to the other mid way through the traverse.
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