Snowpatch Route, IV, 5.8

7th -13th Pitches- 300m- 5th/ I have no idea how long this section really is, but we will call it a 1000’+/- gain. It did not take us seven pitches to reach the “inverted pear”. A combination of running the rope out a full 60m and simul-climbing found us behind the easy to identify landmark (inverted pear) in short order. Start straight up from pitch six and stay just left of the “snowpatch” and then angle back right once above it to find the inverted pear (photo). Towards the end of this section, stay more left versus too far right to find the better rock. Most of this mid section of the route is just solid mid 5th class slab climbing. Snowpatch Route, IV, 5.8, 19 Pitches, Bugaboo Glacier Provincial Park, August, 2009