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I replaced my previous posts for clarity.
Route overview. Not my pic. I'm not sure where it came from but it shows the route overview pretty well. Take green to meet the red (Kepplinger's) route and take it up to the summit.
route overview green meets red (Kepplingers) then take to summit
Keplingers and CA route overview dnsz.jpg (200.82 KiB) Viewed 746 times
This is where you leave the loft proper and head around the NW corner to look for the 'diving board cairn'. I have turned around to take this picture and am looking back at the Loft with Meeker in the background.
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Once you find the 'diving board' cairn, then locate the correct gulley to descend. I look for the circled rock that is further down the gulley to verify the correct gully to descend. Go down the gulley. There will be some large drops. Stay to the left when given the option. You should end up on the left (west) side of the large rock with the arrow on it. You will need to step to a large balancing rock and turn around on it and then look facing uphill to see the rock's north side. You will not want to go any lower in the gulley.
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...the mountain peaks belong to Him. -- PS 95:4
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz
Closeup after turning around and facing uphill to see the rock's north side. Again, you will not want to go any lower in the gulley. Note that the picture has contrast added and that the arrow is really very faint. If the sun is shining on the rock it will be very hard to see it at all.
closeup
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Red line showing where you will arrive on the west side of the rock, turn the corner to find the arrow (red circles) and then descend a little into Kepplinger's Couloir before going up it to meet the homestretch of the Keyhole route.
Clark's Arrow with red markers
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Looking back at Clark's Arrow from further up in Kepplinger's Couloir.
Looking back at the arrow from Kepplinger's Couloir
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...the mountain peaks belong to Him. -- PS 95:4
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz
