the start gully

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the start gully

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Looking up the ridge from low on the route.

Overview of route with approximate location of ascent in yellow and descent in blue.

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Nov 20, 2016

“the start gully”

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Looking down at the meadow from the slope of the true summit.

Looking down the Cowboy Ridge from the start of the upper ridge.

The pitch leading up to the 5.7 hand crack.

Chris Lambert soloing the chimney pitch.

Approaching the ridge. Arrow points to where we got on the ridge, which had a lot of tracks and seemed to be a good place to get on.

Looking down the dragons tail

topo.

The ridge looking good from the approach

Our GPS-backed line. Approach: Cl 4 to low 5th through two cliff bands (LT). Descent: Cl 3 through cairns on the ridge and avoided the cliff bands via a gully (RT). Recommended to approach via our descent.

Mount Kinesava and "Cowboy Ridge" (the obvious ridge on the light/shadow line)

The epic handcrack pitch!

Nearing the top of the 5.7 hand crack pitch .

view from the descent

Looking up the ridge from low on the route.

the start gully

Overview of route with approximate location of ascent in yellow and descent in blue.

View from the south summit and looking at true summit and Kinesava with arrow pointing to location of petroglyph panel.

Scrambling midway up Cowboy Ridge.

Looking up at the ridge as we start up it pre sunrise. It was beautiful to watch while climbing!

Start hike from Chinle TH in the Anasazi subdivision

Echinocereus coccineus?

Ridge scrambling

view from early in the descent

summit plateau views

choss hopping

looking back at Kinesava after the descent

approaching the summit from the right side

The top of the descent with the deep, 3 foot wide chimney on the right.

one of the chimney sections (with bit of 4th at the top)

the summit bump

looking toward the west

the ridge

where the harder Kinesava routes are

On the route.

Exposed and slightly spicy little traverse and upclimb where the ridge becomes a little more serious.

Fun day out

Ridge climbing.

Jump!

Zack and Chris heading up the final section to reach the hand crack

True alpine

Looking up the beautiful ridge

on the descent

Chimney Scramble (Widest of the 3)

Descending, just below the meadow.

Leading the 5.7 hand crack, still in approach shoes

Zack making his way to the ledge below the crux hand crack

approx route

approximate line

eastern views

Just as you get on the ridge with the entire climb seen.

West Temple

Looking east across the meadow, the top of the descent gully is at the pine, left of the two pointed rock towers.

looking east

the large tunnel-behind flake just before the handcrack

the handcrack

Here's Andy making Utah Tech gang signs as he wraps up the 5.7 hand crack. I built an anchor using the rope, a sturdy bush, and a #1 in a sandy pod behind and left on the bush.

more views to the west

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