A look at Giant from the Ausable club.
Showing the slides.
Showing the route on Diagonal and Eagle.
In the drainage leading to Diagonal.
Looking down the drainage. A lot of wet and moss that made for some treacherous footing.
Neil considers a move. Wasn't executed on the wet moss though.
The views start showing up. The Great Range.
Another look down the drainage.
Climbing out of the drainage to get onto Diagonal. See Neil?
Took a lot of pictures of the same thing. But the Great Range looked awesome from all the slides.
Same spot as previous pictures. Getting bored waiting for Neil...
On the Diagonal.
He's a little strange sometimes...
This doesn't look like to bad of a move in this picture. We detoured though.
Dixes and Nippletop start showing up.
Looking down Diagonal and the drainage we came up.
Avid adventurer.
Some steep sections on Diagonal.
Avid adventurer. Ruggedly handsome.
Some views of Eagle (closer and to the left) which we ascended later. To the right is Finger, which we descended to get back to the base of Eagle.
The professor tries to determine the coefficient of friction.
Still on Diagonal.
Closest is Question Mark, with Eagle and Finger behind visible.
Same pictures as before, now with a Neil.
Still getting higher.
The top rock of Diagonal.
From the top of Diagonal, looking back down at what we ascended.
Working our way up the cliffs right before the top.
The final cliffs.
The Diagonal slide.
Diagonal, from the actual summit of Giant. Looks pretty innocent from here.
At the end of the ridge are the cliffs we had to skirt and then climb up.
On the way down Finger. Large open slide in the foreground is Eagle. Further away and to the left is Diagonal.
Just below the top of Finger.
On the way down...
Neil descending the Finger. Thankfully not giving me the finger.
Again, Eagle and Diagonal visible.
Looking back up the Finger.
The weirdo wouldn't stop following me.
Already part way up Eagle.
Looking up Eagle.
And back down.
Lots and lots of nice slab.
This spot was much more intimidating when you realize that below him is...
...this.
At the start of a steep slab.
And almost to another rest point at the top.
Looking up the head where we ended up going.
Big views.
Hey, look over there!
Before we ascended the Eagle's head, we decide to check out the feather on the right.
This looks pretty tame, but traversing with some wet rock and moss can be a bit unnerving.
The first feather to the right of the head. Not gonna get past the cliff.
So we'll traverse to the next feather.
Oh yeah, it looked like this below us the whole time.
Pulling a move.
Why'd I give the camera to Neil?
Pulling a sick move! Actually, after scouting the 2nd feather we decided it wouldn't be much fun, so I ended up climbing back down this.
Now back at the base of the Eagle's head. There were definitely a number of Class IV sections along here.
That's a long way down...
More steep slab going up the head.
Neil tackles another route.
Neil about to tackle what must be a moderate Class V move. Maybe like a 5.2 or 5.3? Unfortunately I don't know much about ranking them.
Feeling some vertigo?
Like a mountain goat on his perch.
Last bits of the Eagle before the summit ridge.
Our track, overlaid on aerial imagery. Ain't technology fun?
