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There are a lot more flowers along the trail than 6 weeks ago!Nice and cool in the early morning as I ascend the steep and direct Grizzly Creek Trail.Nice and cool in the early morning as I ascend the steep and direct Grizzly Creek Trail.So many flowers!Mount Potts comes into view up valley.Looking past Grizzly Peak (L) towards Lawson Ridge.Instead of going up and left, I continue into this lovely valley towards the cirque between Evan Thomas (R) and Potts (L).The two cliff bands are moderate scrambling but do require a bit of route finding.Looking back over the cirque I'm surprised how much height I've gained already.If I took Kane's description literally, I'd be going up one of these gullies, as they are immediately climber's left of the first cliff band. Hard to see on this photo but one of them is also very broI identified this as my gully using reference photos from Grant. I'll show more photos from the bottom later (on descent) but the key feature here is the heart shaped cliff at the top of the photo inAs I start up the gully, I notice that I'm higher than Opal South (R) and even higher now than Lawson Ridge!Note the light brown crumbly rock abutting the "solid" (it's not that solid) gray rock at right.Great views back towards Evan Thomas (L).Looking down the lower gully - you can see it's actually quite fun and slabby here.The terrain on either side is steep, loose and downsloping.Now this sucker is getting steep.Now this sucker is getting steep.
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