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Mount Timpanogos, Again
This is a 3-D picture. Go cross-eyed and watch Timpanogos pop out at
you! (by Antone Roundy)
Don't spend too much time at this, your eyes might stick that way.
The yellow dot on the bottom of the right image shows base camp, the dot at the
top shows the summit.
The slope on the left is Baldy. In the center is Everest Ridge. The ridge on
the right edge is Ginsu.
Shaun steps across the exposed edge of a cliff band |
On May 2, Shaun and Robert climbed the West Face of
Timpanogos. After staring at the mountain for two weeks, dreaming of going up
again, Chris (who climbed the Grand Teton with Shaun two years
ago) called, and on May 16, up they went again. Shaun's brother Antone came along,
too, and the second trip made the first look like nothing. Well, maybe not nothing,
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Antone and Chris make their way up Everest Ridge at
about 10,000' with 8,000'+ Mt. Baldy and 4,000' Utah Lake in the background.
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Kendall, Antone, Cindy, and Chris. Dark clouds move
over the valley as we finally reach the summit ridge
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From Base Camp, we heard voices down canyon. By the time we had climbed 2,000
feet, the voices appeared below in the form of Kendall and Cindy, who followed in our
footsteps and caught up to us after another 2,000 feet. When we reached the steep,
technical climbing, we tied them into our rope and proceeded to the summit. |
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Temperatures drop well below zero as the wind whips ice
crystals against any exposed skin. Here, we make our way south and down from the
summit, carefully avoiding the up-to 40' overhanging cornices. We reach the base of the foothills (passing 50' high piles of snow
from massive avalanches miles down the mountain) just after dark and at 11:00 p.m. Shaun
climbs in the back of a Bronco and heads for another backpacking trip in the Havasu Indian Reservation. |
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See nine more pictures on Antone's
web site.
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