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All Locations > Colorado > Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Mt Alice > Central Ramp (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c)
Guillaume Dargaud starting the last pitch of the route from under the cave at the top of the Ramp.
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"The Ramp" illuminated.
About 150' short of the base of the climb - make your way up to the roof in the ramp, then follow your nose and send!
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Brad Brandewie
Sep 4, 2002
“Guillaume Dargaud starting the last pitch of the route from under the cave at the top of the Ramp.”  

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Nice view of the route on the way down.
This is the same picture Justin submitted. (I hope you don't mind that I borrowed it). The yellow line shows the approximate line that we climbed, as I described in my comments on the route. We definitely felt that we were on route the whole way (although I climbed this many years ago, so the yellow line is approximate). Hopefully this might clarify. Henry, any comments?
The Central Ramp.
Approaching base of the Central Ramp.
Pitch 1 (5.8 dihedral). The 5.5 chimney is just right of this.
We scrambled up the rock to the right of the snowfield, keeping it at 4th Class.
Approach and general route topo. Story and original photo here: https://www.twoklassens.com/blog/mt-alice-foray.
We started by crossing the narrow strip of snow on the lower right side of the photo to gain a ledge system that crosses to the left until you pass under large block, just past this you can start climbing the path of least resistance up.
The approach snowfield and 4th-Class start. 8-1-08. The Ramp is shadowed, and edge on to the image.
Dougald finishing P3.
Lisa Foster on the 4th pitch with the Central Ramp visible directly below her.
For our final pitch, we climbed the handcrack in the dihedral, exited left, and then climbed straight up to the summit ridge. This doesn't quite match up with the guidebook description for this pitch, and there were certainly other ways to go as well.
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