Minimal snow on Cables as of Feb. 1, 2019. Easy climbing with good pro.

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Minimal snow on Cables as of Feb. 1, 2019. Easy climbing with good pro.

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Climbing up the lower portion of the route just above Chasm view.

2nd pitch up the Cable Route on July 3, 2012. Practically no snow but this spot. Lots of water on the rock, though.

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Grayson Cobb

Feb 10, 2019

“Minimal snow on Cables as of Feb. 1, 2019. Easy climbing with good pro.”

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Cable Route as seen from Storm Peak on 3-8-08. Two parties are visible, one just reaching the top of technical pitch, the other descending from above.

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The Cable Route follows the red line to the summit.

Taken March 23, 2002.

4-13-03<br>
A picture of an April climb just to show the variety of conditions posible. Almost entirely snow on this day.

Water on the rock taken July 2, 2012.

looking down the climb on the Cable route

Halfway up the iconic first pitch.

Charles and Bob 75ft up the techinical section of the Cables route. Notice the use of available natural features. Picture taken 7-3-04.

Top of the easy, technical stuff.

Snowfield above the Cable early in the season.

Me alone above crux of Cable. Very little and unstable snow just for trouble. Was like M5/6 R. Summit was part of ABC 14'ers project in 12 months. Jan. 30, 2010.

The clouds came in covering the East Face completely by the time we were back down to Chasm Junction. You can see the bottom of the Diamond in this shot.

looking up the climb, the crux is visible at the top of the photo

Black - unroped ascent, blue - roped ascent, red - descent, yellow - raps.

Topmost "fixed" anchor on the Cable Route. A couple of old bolts girthed with some dyneema and a quicklink. A 60m rap from here WILL NOT get you to the first eyebolt. We rapped from here, 30-40ft down to another eyebolt, and then rapped again to the first eyebolt on a 60m rope.

Conditions on the Cable Route as of 6/25/2013. On ascent, snowpack was solid, very bootable. Tech section had some ice (lots of verglas and some larger stuff). On descent (~1pm), snow was super soft, ice underneath in some spots made for very slippery conditions, crampons super helpful. Tech section was gushing stream on descent.

Long's North Face (Cable Route) - January 4, 2013.

The second half of the 5.4 dihedral section in midsummer conditions.

Old iron loops - cables were removed. Many options to set up a rappel, we did only one.

Does anybody have any info on this chimney? I saw at least three rusty old pitons on my way up. It felt about 5.5-5.6. Thanks!

One rappel on the descent.

Me rapping from the 1st rap station.

The descent in early June 03 above the raps. Crampons are still highly recommended at this time of year for descents as well.

The Cable Route (a.k.a. North Face of Long's) from boulder field on Aug 1st, 2007.

Above the Cable Route, winter 2013.

Rapping Down to Chasm View (c) Jesse Ryan

A friend, Amy Myers, and I fourth-classing up the Cable Route, just below the crux (from what I've learned here on MP) late July or early August 2000. We were college, cross-country running buddies on summer vacation and were told this was an alternative to the Keyhole Route. We were just in running shoes and had a blast.

Climbing up the lower portion of the route just above Chasm view.

Minimal snow on Cables as of Feb. 1, 2019. Easy climbing with good pro.

2nd pitch up the Cable Route on July 3, 2012. Practically no snow but this spot. Lots of water on the rock, though.

Long's Peak, as seen from the Twin Sisters, w/the route roughly sketched.

Look at the slope angle on the descent above the Cable Route.

Ernie Port just above the real climbing on Cable route.

Sept 18, 2004

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Some mixed climbing sections on a mostly snow covered route, May 28th.

Snow covered route, early Spring.

Going up a snow covered Cable Route in Spring May 28th.

Approaching the route in early spring, snow covered, May 28th, 2021.

Will Drexler on the summit. He was a little tired. 11/25/05.

Shane Murphy resting after the first pitch.

Ben and Shane on the summit of Longs.

Shane Murphy in front of the Cable Route--the dihedral just right of the edge of the Diamond.

A route overlay of North Face / Cables Route.

The first half of 5.4 dihedral section in midsummer conditions.

Pitch 1.

Some snow and ice on the route during shoulder season in October.

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