There weren't any old boot tracks on those places except the tracks made by us and a group of four who were below us on the face and eventually descended by traversing to the west of the summit pyramid.
Hell's highway is moderate in steepness and safer to come come down but takes longer (~1/2hr?) and requires 400-500ft gain compared with dropping down via Hourglass. We intended coming down on the Hourglass but what we came down turned out to be the Highway...for better or worse.
It's a really fun climb and hope to do it again later this year with the alpine ice setting.
Well, I just blew three weeks of my vacation time climbing Denali and looks like I have to remain as a weekend warrior for the whole summer. Generally I am free on Sunday so shoot me PM if you need a partner.
Hey Rob,
It's Dave who bought your cobra. Shoot me an email when you are planning to go up. (Unfortunately, I can't go this week but maybe next week.) BTW, the Tele-Tuesday at Ski Bowl is on tomorrow night.