Ruby Range Traverse: Sept 2008

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O'Dark Thirty start
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Like a deer in headlights at Yule Pass
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The summit in view
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High steeping our way up hill
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Grant scrambling
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On top of Purple Mountain
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Reading the summit register
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The ridge to Augusta Mountain
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On the ridge with Mineral Pt and Augusta Mnt ahead
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Leaving Purple Mountain in our wake
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Scrambling over fractured talus
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Grant at a crux
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Scrambling on the ridge
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On an easy section of the ridge
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Unnamed lake below Angel Pass
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Richmond Mountain awaits
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Terraced vegetation
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A few trees at 12,000 feet
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Grant downclimbing from the false summit of UN 12,104
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Rugged ridge to Richmond
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Some dark clouds trouble us
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Clear skies also
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Scrambling on the way to Richmond
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Augusta behind us
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Downclimbing to avoid a cliff
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Gendarmes we passed through
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The cliff we avoided
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Richmond still ahead
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Long ridge from Augusta
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Nearing Richmond, Augusta, Purple and Treasury behind
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Mount Owen awaits another day
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Descending past the remains of a cornice
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Oh-be-joyful Pass
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Heading for Daisy Pass
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Lake in Democrat Basin
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Back on trail
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Switchbacks down into Baxter Basin
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Descending from Daisy Pass
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Aspens changing
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Poverty Gulch's creek
RubyRoute
Hiking route in red, hitchhike in blue