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Crown Mountain - Crater Slabs

Jordan Peters and I climbed crater couloir to the base of the SE face of Crown then ascended straight up the middle to the summit of crown, never exceeding 4th class.

With short daylight hours and a summer that wouldn't end I couldnt figure out what I wanted to do. Was it ice season or rock climbing season, my friend Don was off to the seracs as according to him it was ice season but I wasn't ready to give up on the rock just yet. I mailed my climbing partner Toby and asked him about a day trip he did a few years ago,solo, where he was raving about a route he called Crown Couloir. He was still raving about it when he mailed me back and suggested I bring rock shoes and take the route to the summit of Crown as opposed to his way which was to top out on the...

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