250m, 6 pitches. This is a great winter link up of two summer routes on the first (eastern) buttress of Hallet. It makes for a relatively well protected and easy way up the north face in winter, and is a good introduction to the peak, and to longer winter routes in RMNP in general.

P1 starts in a corner and traverses into the namesake dihedral. Micro cams are helpful.
P2 climbs the dihedral. Technical crux, but gear anywhere you want it.
P3 climbs broken ground to the base of a chimney. More challenging than it looks, and the easiest path isn't necessarily the most obvious.
P4 climbs the chimney which steps left at the end onto a ledge dividing the lower half of the buttress from the upper half and completes the summer 'great dihedral' route. Escape is possible at this point via a gully on climber's left, but will involve two single rope rappels or so at different points. Descend the gully along the skier's right wall.

P5-6 cross to the base of the upper buttress and make your way up the path of least resistance. Descend via rap chains to the east. A single 60m rope should be sufficient to descend to hallet couloir. If snow stability is a concern, descend to the south towards Lake Haiyaha, otherwise descend hallet couloir to emerald lake.

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