We decided to do Pingora our first full day in the cirque - arguably the quintessential summit in the area. We went for the S buttress. We got up early not knowing what our speed would be nor whether T-storms would approach. We only met two other groups on the mountain - one passing us on an adjacent route, and one c
limbing late in the day. To the right, Lucas is "excited" to be at the base of the climb. So from there, L and I traded leading pitches and it turned out to be very pleasant and fun climb, even if it was a bit slow. On the left, me leading one of the pitches.Upon summiting, the weather was getting a little dicey and kind of weirded us out. We quickly took our camaras out to snap a few summit pics, but they started humming (like snow on your television) - I am guessing from all of the electricity in the air???? So we scurried off the summit to to avoid the putative lightning and stared rapelling. After two rapels the sun came out and we basked in the warmth on a little ledge and had some lunch...
This pic from the summit shows tomorrow's objective - Wolf's Head, and the E ridge route (knife ridge) that we will take.
Day 1 - Hike in, skunk's knob and camel's hump
Day 2 - Pingora N face
Day 3/4 - Wolf's Head E ridge
Day 5 - Overhanging tower
Day 6 - End of the trip
Lucas' trip report
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