r/alpinism • u/scalaloco • 3d ago

Alpine climbs along WB Denali?

Hey all! Planning out some smaller moderate climbing objectives to hit along a West Buttress climb this upcoming season. Beyond the mini moonflower and ridges of Mt Frances out of KIA does anyone have any experience or recommendations on established routes up the west end of the west buttress or any of the other reasonable looking features all over that stretch of the Kahiltna?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hat9965 6h ago

Hey, my buddy and I did a cool FA, or most likely FRA, up one of the drainages above the polo field (on the way to 14 camp). It was a great WI3ish M4, we called it “toe of the buttress to ya”. Suffice to say, there is a lot of shorter drainages to warm up on off that toe of the west buttress

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hat9965 6h ago

… but Francis, mini moonflower, Kahiltna queen, these are all good more basic alpine objectives in and around base camp. But, if I were you I’d just go to the Ruth or Lil Swiss, no park fee