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  • South end of the Temple Mountain formation as seen on the short approach. width:640;;height:407
  • The southeast side of Temple Mountain. The eastern summit is on the right; the western summit is out of sight to the left. width:640;;height:480
  • Dominic scrambles up the southeast slopes width:640;;height:480
  • Steep slickrock width:640;;height:480
  • A slickrock staircase of sorts width:640;;height:480
  • The crux of the route is climbing through the cliff bands right below the summit plateau. The difficulty is only low 5th class but its chossy and exposed. width:640;;height:392
  • South side of the Temple Mountain formation width:640;;height:480
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  • Western summit width:480;;height:640
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  • Dominic coils the rope after the first little crux. He scrambled up unroped and then gave me a belay; it was short with minimal exposure but required laying back on sloping, sandy holds while smearing with your feet on crumbling sandstone. Could have been as tough as 5.5 in our opinion but it wasn't much more than a bouldering problem. width:640;;height:480
  • East summit. The final scramble felt 4th class to me. width:640;;height:480
  • We downclimbed this peculiar, junky crack to traverse from the eastern to the western summit. width:480;;height:640
  • Approaching the western summit width:480;;height:640
  • Eastern summit and connecting ridge width:640;;height:480
  • Rappelling near the western summit using the 60 meter rope we found! width:453;;height:640
  • Descending the southeast slopes width:640;;height:480
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