Descent from Keiners
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Hey, |
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FYI Marmots will eat everything you own. |
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Scott, |
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Gabriel Bromley wrote:Scott, You recommend NOT stashing our stuff and instead climb the route with it/ dont bivy at all? GabeWell you CAN stash your stuff, but be prepared to do some work to protect it. They'll eat boots, straps, tents, whatever. On the backside of long's (spearhead) we flipped our packs upside down and hung them over small cliffs which seemed to help. On the way up we watched marmot ravage another groups bivy. Sometimes you have to indirectly throw rocks at the f*ckers while you are sitting next to your pack. They don't care. |
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From the summit, if you head down the Cables (North Face) Route, the bottom of the rap puts you at Chasm View, which IIRC has a good rappel back down to the base, which is roughly where your gear would be stashed. Anyone else care to confirm? |
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If you need to get to Chasm Lake from the North Face rappels, generally one takes the Camel gully decent or the 'sidewalk' decent referred to at Longs Peak via Kor's Door -> Finish Kiener's Route beta questions. If you decide to rap from Chasm View, I believe you are looking at 6 double rope raps (3 on chasm view and 3 on the crack of delight IIRC) and a long traverse across Broadway. |
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Xam wrote:If you need to get to Chasm Lake from the North Face rappels, generally one takes the Camel gully decent or the 'sidewalk' decent referred to at Longs Peak via Kor's Door -> Finish Kiener's Route beta questions.This is the way to go. I did the Camel gully descent back to my bivy gear at night and it wasn't too bad. I stashed my pack under a boulder and had no problems with critters. I didn't have any food in the pack. |