Hourglass has still some water flowing through it. The picture doesn't show the extent of water, but there is continuous water flowing through the hour glass which is more than what is visible from the picture. Also on the descent there is a cairned route from the top that takes you directly to the start of bottom anchor point, I am not sure why people don't take it, this avoids the top 300 ft of the ugly gully directly above the hourglass (where most of the rocks that are being dropped in the hourglass come from.) and sticks to climber's right (facing downward direction) The route is on the south side of the immediate summit. I wish I could have taken some pictures coming down. I do have a GPX file though.
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