Type: Trad, Alpine, 1500 ft (455 m), 9 pitches, Grade IV
FA: James Garrett and Franziska Garrett, 21 July 2006
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Shared By: James Garrett on Jul 28, 2006
Admins: Mike Snyder, Taylor Spiegelberg, Jake Dickerson

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Ambush is huge and vast. The route we called Triple Shot as we passed three distinct "summits"...one of which we needed to rappel down to continue. The M Buttress is its own mountain, really. Basically, this is just to the north of the North Summit of Ambush. A huge dike forms the letter M at the lower part of the wall/arete. The route starts at the far left lower side of the letter M and follows the beautiful left facing dihedral and then on to the arete to the top of the first tower. It forms a huge ridge with the passing of three gendarmes to the top of the mountain. I believe we reached a summit higher than the north and south summits of Ambush. We were looking down to them?! Some really classic and excellent moderate pitches await the adventure climber on this one!

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Start at the lower left side of the M formed by a dike

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Clean rack up to 3.5 Camalots

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