Here's another one Kevin Ditzler and I did in Febuary of last year.


This was our second attempt on the North Face. We skied in and started climbing a few hours later.


After third classing as far as we could we got the ropes out.


After a few pitches we called it a day and chopped out a ledge for a few hours of sleep. The next day several steep pitches of mixed and ice took us to a large rock roof that went at A2/A3.



We bivied just below the aid section.


Here's a shot of the aid pitch that seemed to take forever. All we had was three bird beaks and three copper heads. I had to back clean a few times. After the aid pitch things eased up a little and it got dark again.



Late in the evening we finally made it to the ridge crest. We were able to unrope there and third class to the summit. We decended to the col between Nantina and Kiliak and the back down to the dishwater drainage.


Darkness Falls took us forever, around 68 hours round trip and goes at WI6 M6 A2/3.