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Here's the best view of our route (East Buttress of Bear Creek Spire, 5.5) from a point about a mile past where we cut off trail and began hiking through the talus and trying to avoid snowfields. The route goes up the prominent buttress of the peak--it's not the left skyline but the gentler slope blelow the skyline that angles up past two towers and joins the peak just left and below the summit. Most of the route was fourth-class scrambling but about where the ridge joins the main peak, it steepens up and we roped up to pitch out the last few hundred feet.