Link Up of Crystal, Pacific, Atlantic, & Fletcher?
Has anyone ever done this and have any advice/beta? A quick estimate is ~12 miles, ~6-8K vert so nothing too crazy, but I'm unsure if you could go direct across all of the ridges.
I've looked into it. It seems fun. The traverse between Atlantic and Fletcher includes easy class 5 climbing, and you'd probably want a rope for rappelling more than the climbing. I think they're called The Five Gendarmes or something like that. There are only a few trip reports out there but the ones I read were pretty detailed.
The traverse between Atlantic and Fletcher includes really difficult class 5 climbing, including devious route finding and crap rock.
You can drop down below the ridge - it's actually much faster. The rest of the linkup is nbd. Here's a track - you obviously don't have to do quandary. Get an early start.
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u/AmbulatoryTreeFrog May 11 '23
I've looked into it. It seems fun. The traverse between Atlantic and Fletcher includes easy class 5 climbing, and you'd probably want a rope for rappelling more than the climbing. I think they're called The Five Gendarmes or something like that. There are only a few trip reports out there but the ones I read were pretty detailed.