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Scrambling up the incredibly exposed 5.2 ramp to start Wolf's Head.
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Pingora looking small across the cirque from the summit of Block Tower.
around Shark's Nose
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Chris Carter
Sep 23, 2024
“Scrambling up the incredibly exposed 5.2 ramp to start Wolf's Head.”  

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Overlay of the Traverse, with timestamps representing our times.
Here is our GPS tracks of the Traverse and all 13 summits. 30 Pitches, ~17 raps, & about 22 miles.
Cirque of the Towers at Dusk
Nearing the end of the traverse and looking back at all the towers we just climbed.
View during traverse from summit of Sharks Nose
Watching the sunrise on top of Pingora before heading over to the rappels down to Wolf's Head
Soaking in the sunrise & view from the first summit, Pingora. This photo shows the peaks that make up most of the technical climbing on the Cirque Traverse. What’s left? Around 24 pitches including the iconic 50 classic East Ridge of Wolf’s Head, ~14 raps, & a lot of scrambling.
Wolf's head
The traverse from the North summit of Shark's Nose to the South summit of Shark's Nose. We felt this was the crux climbing of the traverse. Casey is on the crux "5.8" move.
The col between Block Tower and Watchtower. The climber's finish to the CT: heading up and left to nice splitter finger cracks (5.9) for an alternate and more elegant path to the Watchtower part of the Cirque Traverse. See comment for more detail.
"I said don't look down!" August 2021.
UT climbers on the S Buttress of Pingora
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