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Slalok Mountain via Stonecrop Face

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Saturday, March 18, 2023.   Slalok Mountain (2653m) via stonecrop face route. TR: up the couloir, traverse towards the west, up towards the east between two rock outcrops, up the face towards the summit ridge, up the summit block. Stats: 1400m elevation gain. 12h c2c. 5am start, 8h to ascend, 45min break, 3h15min to descend.    Over 3 years ago, Kai and I hiked up to Upper Joffre Lake (~1260m) with Zoë and gazed at the mountains surrounding us. Slalok Mountain behind Zoë and the lake. This was at the start of our relationship, back in fall of 2019. We attempted to climb Slalok Mountain (2653m) last week but had to turn back due to lack of time and energy. Our route on Thursday, March 9, 2023. Kai had just had his work van broken into earlier that week and all his tools were stolen (about 4k worht). The whole season since I returned from Africa and then got injured bouldering was pretty uneventful, especially due to the poor weather (lots of rainy weekends and not so...