Photos by piton3853

This is the sun as it rose on our approach to Lamb's Slide where we would eventually sent the summit via the Notch Couloir.

Keith pushing a 5.7 piece. There are a couple of fixed piton's here. If we had prepared for a fast ascent more properly we would have taken Twight's advice and brought some aiders to go quickly past this rock piece without having to put rock shoes on, especially in the 40 degree F notch.

Keith took this picture of Nick on the Lamb's Slide. We were off to a great start and, after this section of the climb, were attempting to summit Long's Peak via Alexander Chimney. Even though I look like I'm just "cruisin" here, this is pretty much rock alley at this point, and we're dodging stones the size of a fist, which of course, were hailed down upon us from the mountain gods.