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On the excellent approach track just after the river crossing with Orient Point looming above the truck.

The driving portion ends a bit prematurely thanks to a confusing track in the many braided channels of the Ghost River at left.

It's already hot in the morning as we start up the drainage trail from the campsite.

Orient Point looks far away at this point and instead of hiking towards it at right, we'll take the ATV track at left heading towards the South Ghost River and End Mountain.

The south ridge is visible ahead of us here.

Great views back down the approach drainage to the South Ghost drainage at left.

Looking up our route.

First we'll ascend to the summit block above Phil on this ridge, then we'll traverse to the cliffs to its left before descending slightly and breaking another set of cliffs.

An interesting arch along the first bit of ridge crest that we got onto.

Great views from the top of the south ridge over the South Ghost River drainage.

The rest of the route from the south ridge is obvious from this vantage. Simply traverse to the next line of cliffs and find a reasonable way through.

The difficult route is choked with snow and ice and we're in approach shoes so we'll go left around a corner and find a moderate route up instead.

Looking up at the moderate route.

Phil comes up the moderate route.

Now another traverse awaits! We'll traverse all the way to the distant patches of snow at center before cutting up through another set of cliffs under the summit.

On descent we used the snow patch but on ascent we climbed solid(ish) rock next to it.

Ascending a mix of slab and scree to the east summit ridge. The false summit at upper left.

Looking back down the ridge to the summit.

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