The Impala. The Impala is the sloping pyramid of about 12,100 feet just above and west of Lower Boy Scout Lake in the Lone Pine Creek area. The face is about 500 feet high. The first ascent was made in June directly up the south face by Brad Fowler and Charles Ray. They began at the base of the prominent chimney leading directly up the face and climbed two pitches of class 4 to 5.0. The third pitch leaves from a large ledge and surmounts a small overhang (5.6). The fourth laybacks up 20 feet, works right and laybacks upward again for 40 feet (5.7). They worked from a small belay ledge left, up and back right to a prominent jam-crack (bongs, 5.7). They then climbed to the false summit and along the jagged crest to the true summit. They used 11 pitons and some runners. On November 10 Charles Raymond and I made a second new route on the south and upper southeast faces. We followed the obvious diagonal chimney that slants from the lower left corner of the south face to its upper right corner to where it merges with the southeast face, having crossed the Fowler-Ray route near the top of their second pitch. There are two pitches of difficulty on the upper southeast face, the crux being a 5.7-section where we moved left across a slab from a crack. Both routes were Grade II.

Fred Beckey