Routes : North America : United States : Alaska : Southcentral Mountaineering : Talkeetna Mountains : Mint Glacier Area : Troublemint Peak - North Face - Linear Accelerator
PreviousTroublemint Peak - North Face - Linear Accelerator - 5.6
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Ice screws, medium cams, med-large stoppers, lots of long runners.
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Description:
(III) 5.6 AI2 From the hut, make way to the mint glacier proper and veer rght up into the bowl of troublemint. Climb the gully of ice/snow. There are few places to rest while frontpointing up the 70 degree ice. Once the col is reached easy terrain takes you along the ridge to the first pitch of a wide crack with a huge spear of a flake beneath, runs 5.5 or so, once this is reched a belay station of runners around chock stones is found on a little pedestal beneath the second pitch of rock. This pitch is slightly harder at 5.6 and has a few old hexes buried in it last time I was there. upon the top of this pitch the rdge continues to the summit. The summit itself is a ginormous block with lots of exposure on near all sides. Beware as a fall from the summit would not be pretty and there is not much of a rappel station on the summit, regardless of what the book in the hut may say.
Submitted by: drzaous on 2006-03-22
Views: 1814
Route ID: 29111
1 Ascent Recorded
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Ascent Note
soloed the lower ice with a single axe and crampons, did the whole route in mountain boots, and decended the south face, NOT RECOMENDED.
Added: 2002-07-20
