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[TR] Dumbell and Greenwood - Standards 8/2/2015


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Trip: Dumbell and Greenwood - Standards

 

Date: 8/2/2015

 

Trip Report:

 

Last weekend I took my boys backpacking up to the upper Phelps Basin camp (just past the Spider Gap turnoff on the Phelps Trail). My youngest and I summited Dumbell and Greenwood mountains just before they announced the larger fire closure area for the Wolverine fire, which we could see billowing smoke.

 

Upper Phelps Basin:

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Boys bouldering rock and Mountain House dining table:

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Cliff bands below Dumbell. We took an exposed route through the 1st cliff band going up and a loose gully through the second. An intervening hard patch of snow warranted crampons for a few feet only.

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Above the second cliff band:

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Scrambling high on Dumbell:

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Greenwood from Dumbell:

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Summit stoke on Dumbell Mountain.

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Bonanza pano:

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Negotiating the bulge on the infamous exposed class 2 ledge to Greenwood:

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View of Dumbell from Greenwood (S summit):

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My son traversing the snowfield from the Dumbell-Greenwood col. Crampons made the going easier for him and added to the experience.

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Gear Notes:

Ice axe, helmet

 

Approach Notes:

Snow free until very high up, then just a few patches

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