Big Step

1st Pitch-25m-5.7/ The first pitch runs left of the arête allowing you to protect in a flake approximately 10m high, then goes straight up another 10m to an alcove that you can set a #3 Camelot in or save your Camelot and swing out to the arête to clip a piton. Continue straight up to the top of the pillar to a flat belay stance with two pins up high and a crack at eye level that takes a #2 Camelot. There are also rap slings (2007) on a chock stone at this location. I placed one piece of pro and clipped one piton on this pitch. Big Step, East Ridge, IV, 5.7, Mount Temple, Banff National Park, July, 2007