Riding the Silver Queen chairlift
Mount Crested Butte from the lift
Approximate line of our ascent
Grant leading on the short approach hike
Woods, then talus blocks
Time for helmets and harnesses
Some class 2 and 3 scrambling to start with
Top of the lift
Warm day
Nearing the actual climbing sections
Grant and Pete at the belay
Portion of the first pitch, traverse left under the overhanging block
Looking down pitch 1
Grant remembering how to rock climb
Arriving at the belay
We stayed roped up for the class 3 climbing that followed
High over the town of Mt Crested Butte
Gothic Mtn in the background
Scrambling around the fins
Interesting ridge
Coming up to the diving board
Pete dropping a carabiner about now
On the big fin
Mantling up on a small knife edge
Nearing the summit
Last bit of harder climbing
Adam and Grant on the summit
Descending the trail
Nice path all the way back to the lift
Easy descent
Piper and Pete around the camp fire
Camp fire