Citadel, Capricorn, Southern Section. On August 3 Kristian (Del) Langbauer and I landed by float-plane on the west end of Lonely Lake. We made new routes on the east ridge of Citadel (NCCS III, F7) and the north ridge of Capricorn (NCCS IV, F8, A2). Descent down the south face of the latter was unexpectedly trivial. We made third-class ascents of the Gemini Twins from their common col; we had thought them unclimbed but found cairns on top. We failed on the impressive east face of Guardsman after a day of climbing disagreeable, wet, moss- crammed cracks on what appeared from below to be the approach. The weather was uniformly bad but not atrocious, which apparently explains the obnoxious growth which provided pull-ups on moss clumps or low- angle, greasy, jungle moves.

Todd Thompson