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| Canadian Boarder Peak, west of Slesse |
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| The top of Slesse, looking at west side of peak. |
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| The Helicopter comes to pick us up. |
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| Random view from the helicopter |
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| Decent photo of the top of the Pocket Glacier (left
side of picture), glacier tongue onto the rock, and the rock ledge
traverse over to the nose of the buttress. |
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| The Helicopter drops you off at the top of the
Pocket Glacier. |
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| Getting off the glacier onto the rock ledge traverse
to the buttress. |
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| Lots of wet rock and snow on the lower half. |
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| Decent photo of climbing below Helipad ledge. |
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| Looking down to the Helipad ledge pitch. |
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| Good picture of the Helipad ledge pitch. |
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| Some more wet and snow above Helipad ledge. |
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| View from near Slesse Sheraton. Helipad ledge is way
down below. |
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| On top, ready for the night. |
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| Climbing down the next morning. Lots of fog. |
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| More downclimbing in the fog. |
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| Somewhere in this fog is a climber. |
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| Going down: looking for the trail. Hint: it's on the
snowy shoulder in the right background. |
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| View of west side of Slesse. This is the route down. |
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