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Grand Teton Summit via Owen Spalding

August 17 2023


Hiking up the valley.  
This is my amazing guide Morgan:





An unidentified climber on a notable lateral 
section.  We sailed right through it unroped.
And you could too.  It's 2000' straight down:





Me on the summit:





Saving some down-climbing.  Morgan took this photo
of me with her telescopic lens:





When we returned to the saddle after summiting,
Morgan gave me half her sandwich, which I'm 
holding in my hand while munching:




We started from the trailhead at 4:00 AM.
It was an easy day of hiking, climbing and
descending back to the trailhead.  We spent 
nearly four hours during the day "goofing off".

(Fifteen minutes at Spalding Falls on the 
way up and on the way down; an hour at the 
saddle on the way up and on the way down; 
a half-hour at the summit; about a half-hour 
of staying put on various pitches due to 
route-sharing with other climbing parties.)

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Roger Luebeck
roger@rogcad.com


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