Attempted Lovers Lane with Vlad. Climbed to the famous 5.6 rock step. Both did not feel comfortable climbing thru it, so bailed from it. The lower part of LL had a nice WI2 step that we climbed in style with an ice axe and a 3rd tool.

After descending from LL decided to attemp Zipper. This couloir went much better. Had some fun on the rock step near the exit. It had one sketchy move which I soloed and then helped Vlad by throwing down rope end with the loop (Vlad did not have second tool). After topping on the col we proceeded to the summit on some verglassed class 3 rock. Summit was very windy, we snapped couple shots and rapped down.

Need to get back and climb thru the rock step in LL.

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