Climb short ramp to bulging face. Pass this via a fist/offwidth crack running slightly left to easier ground, then step up right and climb the striking handcrack running through the steep headwall. Belay on the large, sloping ledge.   P2: Scramble up easy fourth/fifth class rock to the top. Harder options lie to the right.

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Cripple Creek

Better than expected climbing, with an airy choice (avoidable) for topping out. When you are up on it, give a nod to Levon.   Climb the short face utilizing the cracks, negotiating a difficult treaty with a few trees to gain a large ledge (one can get to here by scrambling in from the left). Step over to the main cliff face at a vertical crack in a groove outside from and left of a large, brush-choked notch under an overhang. Ascend the crack, which slides right, under a bulging arête, into a corner system. Continue up to a ledge, then hand-traverse right airily out onto and up a slab to finish. One could push through the brush on the ledge for an easier top-out, but it's less enjoyable.

Climb up and right under small overhang and up the crack on the R side of the "alcove" (crux).   Follow the crack as it heads up left, becoming a ramp that meets a corner facing right. At this point, one can choose an easy escape by stepping down and left before climbing straight up, or (original) climb up along the corner to an inverted V overhang, then following a left-slanting crack around the corner (airy) and then up the outside edge of the corner system. Another variation steps R around the inverted V OH and continues up the corner/crack system.

South-facing ridgeline along the summit cliff. This is a long section of crags interspersed with tight balsam/spruce ledges and gullies, west of the 25' tall summit ladder.   The cliffs get plenty of sunshine and, with the exception of Right of the Ladder, dry up fastest after a rain.   The rock conditions are definitely alpine however, with weathered rock on every route, and loose rock potential on most.   The rock is predominantly a compact gneiss.   There are some ice runnels along these cliffs, but the sun tends to bake them out quickly.

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Routes in Left of Ladder