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Starting up the west face of the north end of OXO from the pass.Gazing down the east face glacier and north towards Watermelon and Bobac peaks as we descend the summit ridge.Colin Jones climbed this thing twice! And found the original register, which is pretty cool.Carefully downclimbing the gully.Wietse and I tried to find a route across these slabs to the left but it wasn't scrambling terrain, so back in the gully we went!L to R, Rhondda, Portal, Habel, Thompson, Baker, Trapper, Jimmy Simpson and Mummery in the far distance at right.Even more easterly now, Quartzite, Ramp and Mosquito in the foreground with Deluc and it's glacier at left of center distance.Loose and exposed.Climbing out of the gully.Our first glimpse of the lovely meadows between Dolomite (L) and OXO (C).Back down we go...Once again bailing out of our ascent gully - this time much further down.This should give a pretty idea of the terrain we traversed between gullies.We decided to ascend the bank to the right and follow light forest instead of sticking right in the creek the whole way.Look! There's a cairn! We must be on route.Looking east to Mount Willingdon, Crown and South Tower (L to R) across the Siffleur River Valley.Wietse follows me up.Things start getting a bit dicey as we exit the gully on climber's left and start negotiating up and around a steep, icy section of it on pretty loose and exposed terrain.Molarstone Peak at foreground right, rising over North Molar Pass. In the foreground left is Ramp Peak and Mosquito Mountain.The mouth of the beast.
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