Peak 7552 Climb October 2021 - USA 🇺🇸

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What started as an attempt to climb Porcupine Peak, ended in going way off-route, and ending up in chaos-town too far away from where a decent line to the Porcupine summit could be managed.
Rather than admit total defeat and go home, we continued on around the big cirque near Cutthroat Pass, and found a high point along the rim of the cirque that was a distinct point, and bagged that as a consolation prize.
It was not a very technical ascent, but it did have some great views, and kept the day from being a total bust. And the route for it starts at the Bridge Creek TH, as per Cutthroat Pass, so if you just follow the trail up to the pass initially and then cut across the cirque, you can avoid bushwhacking and a lot of unnecessary scrambling.
This video is 3 years late coming out because I didn't even know at the time it was a real peak, until I was rummaging around through my photo archives and the Peakbagger app this fall, and realized I had pulled off an actual climb that day, and had comprehensive route documentation for it.
Apologies for the shaky camerawork. I was using a Pixel 4a back in 2021, and that thing basically had image anti-stabilization. I did what I could, but it was tricky work.
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Nice video