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ECHO PEAKS # 5, 7, 8, 9


Ascents of Echo Peaks # 5, 7, 8, 9, Yosemite National Park, CA,

July 26, 2007

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1. In the cockpit. We took off at 6:45 am.


2. Over Yosemite National Park. Matthes Crest and the

Echo Peaks are visible on the right

3. Mount Clark, North and Northwest aretes.
4. The Minarets.


5. Mammoth Crest and Crystal Crag.


6. At Mammoth Airport, unloading the gear. We landed at 7:45 am.


7. Cathedral Lakes trailhead, 8:45 am.

8. Hiking towards the Echo Peaks.

 

9. Approaching.

10. Skirting Cathedral Peak.


11. Climbing up to Wilts Col. Cathedral Peak and Mount Conness.

12. Echo Peaks.
13. Reaching Wilts col.

 
14. Wilts col, 10:50 am.


15. Summit of Echo Peak #8.

16. Summit of #8, Echo Crest in the background.

17. Down climbing 3rd class from #8

18. First pitch of Echo Peak #9. A stout 5.7 lead.

 

19. David following.
20. David and René reaching the first belay.


21. David from the summit.


22. On top of Echo Peak #9.


23. Echo Peak #9

 
24. Dean Potter and Alan Bartlett entries in the summit register.


25. Matthes Crest and me.

26. Summit panorama. Matthes Crest, Mount Clark and Echo Peak #3 from the summit of #9.


27. Rappelling down.


28. David on the first rappel.

29. Filming.
30. René and David.

31. At the belay.


32. René has to climb back up to free our stuck rope

- we lose an hour...


33. Finally all set. We continue to rappel down.
34. Back at the 3rd class portion.

35. Careful retreiving the rope this time...
36. Echo Lake.

37. Echo Peaks # 8 and 9. We should have rappelled into the chasm between the two.

38. Climbing Echo Peak #5.


39. Summit ridge of Echo Peak #5.


40. Panorama from the summit of #5 - Matthes Crest, Mount Clark and Echo Peaks #2 and 3.

41. Summit of #5.
42. More of the summit of #5.

43. René on the summit of #5.
44. Eichorn Pinnacle and Cathedral Peak.

45. Climbing #7 - exposed ridge.
46. Summit of #7.

47. David on the knife-edge ridge of #7.

48. Nice view.
49. #9 from the summit of #5. The route we climbed is

the steep face to the right.

50. Down climbing the knife-edge.
51. Summit of #7.

52. Careful... big air on all sides.

53. Downclimbing #7.
54. On the way back.

55. Budd Lake. We were back at the trailhead at 6:20 pm.


56. Mammoth Airport - Mount Morrison on the right.

We take off at 8 pm.

57. Echo Peaks and Matthes Crest from the flight back.
58. Echo Crest, Echo Peaks and Matthes Crest.

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