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Find Phil in the giant boulder field.The stubborn rock pinnacle that remains standing among a sea of rubble. Come to think of it - even the pinnacle itself is made up of rubble!In an adjacent gully now, headed for the plateau and looking down at the boulder field, Phil and Watermelon Peak.Great views back down to Lake Alice and over Dolomite Pass from near the plateau. We came up from the left and descended the gully on the right.Phil crosses the plateau and starts up the broken end of the south ridge.The south ridge doesn't look that easy from up close. The summit is the grey point to the right of the broken ridge in the distance.Trying to stay hopeful as we're forced off the crest of the ridge onto ledges along its east face. Note the snow patches on the scree bench traverse well below us now.What you can't see is the exposure down to the left - it's pretty severe. And the foothold that Phil is stepping on isn't very confidence inspiring either!Another exposed move along the east face traverse. At least the weather is holding and the views are still great.As you can see, the south ridge is pretty intense if you stick on the crest - or even on either side.As you can see, the south ridge is pretty intense if you stick on the crest - or even on either side.It doesn't look like much from above - I'll have more shots from the return later - but there's a few tricky moves just under Phil here.All that's left after the crux is finding the easy scree gully through the cliff band below us and then traversing easily to the col, sneaking past the giant cornice.Yeah - that's not scrambling! The nose of the south ridge shows yet another cliff-out at the col.Note the difficult terrain of the south ridge behind Phil and the exposed snow / scree ledge traverse running off parallel to it at left.Looking across the Siffleur River Valley from the second summit of the day.
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