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Merriam Peak's North Buttress at sunset

FFA of Merriam Peak (First Floatie Ascent)

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Milky Way behind Merriam Peak. Sept 17 2017

Merriam Peak

The Route.

Merriam Peak's North Buttress at sunset

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FFA of Merriam Peak (First Floatie Ascent)

Bruce Lella starting the crux hand crack. The quality of this crack makes up for the loose sections below.<br>
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July, 2007, we day-tripped it from Paradise.

The Triple Crack Pitch (5).

Ascending the triple crack. There is a great ledge slightly higher than this ledge that is a better belay spot

Summit of Merriam Peak

Chris Orozco following the exceptional "Triple Cracks" pitch

Merriam's North Buttress

Upper North Buttress

From the suspected FFFA (first free floatie ascent) of DNB Merriam Peak with Tim Opsahl on Sep 1, 2019.

From the suspected FFFA (first free floatie ascent) of DNB Merriam Peak with Tim Opsahl on Sep 1, 2019.

sweet

Crux pitch

From the suspected FFFA (first free floatie ascent) of DNB Merriam Peak with Tim Opsahl on Sep 1, 2019.

Looking down from about halfway through the route.

Looking up from the start. Slightly convoluted.

Sunset on the DNB!

Part of the class 3-4 summit ridge.

P7 off width S-curve

P8 traverse under roof block

Triple cracks pitch

Triple cracks pitch

Pitch 2

First pitch.

Looking up to really fun crack system. About 5.9.

Looking down the summit ridge toward the North Buttress from the true summit.

Kelvin near the top of Pitch 6

Climbed the triple cracks and 1/2 of the next pitch to the nice ledge. Seemed like a good move to avoid the alcove belay?

Greg D following pitch 1. Pitch 1 is a really sweet, clean finger crack (though the first bit is chossy ledges).

Heading up from lower Royce lake

nice

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