Annotated view of our route up Chair's
Northeast Buttress.
1 --
Our first belay (three small nuts in rock);
V -- Variation for first pitch (might be easier than our route up the S-shaped gully);
2L -- Martin's 2nd belay (tree anchor);
2H --
My 2nd belay (tree anchor about 70 feet past Martin's anchor);
3 --
3rd belay (cam and nut cracks and/or a fixed pin if you can find it);
4 --
4th belay (sunken picket in firm snow/ice). Incidentally, the summit is that corniced point at far right (a closer view
here). Feb. 22, 2004.