Mount Russell, West Face. Alan Kouzmanoff and I climbed a new route on this face in June. It starts in a rotten, right-slanting crack about 40 feet right of the Rowell-Jones route, and climbs over two overhangs with a short hand traverse in between. The rest of the route follows a clean, right-facing dihedral to the summit ridge. (III-IV, 5.10.)

Fred Yackulic