
Heading to the small valley to the right of High Peak, seen left.

Approaching the small valley.

First major drainage on the left.

Class 2 boulder-hopping up this drainage.

View back down the drainage, Class 2/3 obstacles along the way.

Making our way up the drainage.

View back from below the notch.

Close-up at a Class 3 stuff before the notch.

Matt starting up a short Class 3 section from the notch. At the top, drop to the right.

After dropping right, we found this Class 3 chimney.

View back down from the top of the chimney, where we headed left out of it onto a ramp.

Past the ramp, some more Class 3 fun.

View down as we navigate Class 2/3 terrain. The notch we ascended from is above Matt on the right.

Wide shot of our progress up the Class 2/3 terrain. The notch is obscured on the bottom left.

We reached the crux. We decided the crack Matt is standing in front of was the most likely option.

Class 3/4 chimney.

Looking down the chimney.

Matt above the chimney navigating scary Class 4 terrain. We gave up shortly after where he's standing when the exposure became too much.

The following photos are for the southeast face route, which we did in January 2025, successfully reaching the summit. This is the canyon located on the east side of High Peak.

Leaving the canyon to get above a dryfall, taking the slope on the left.

View back down the slope as it becomes more ramp-like after leaving the canyon.

A couple of short obstacles and we reached this gully.

A short way up the gully, we located the tree seen right of center. The route starts up ledges to the left of the tree.

View back along the ledges. We came up from the gully seen below on the right.

Slightly higher up, view back at the initial ledges.

We reached a wide rib, which marked the spot to drop down into an adjacent depression.

Within the depression, looking back toward friends.

Another set of ledges, Class 2/3 most of the time.

Getting pretty exposed now.

A Class 4 move.

View back at the Class 4 move.

Past the Class 4, a wide ramp led up to the ridgeline.

Some fun scrambling along the ridgeline, nothing exceeding Class 3. On trickier sections, it was quickly made clear we had to avoid the crest on either the left/right sides rather than keep to the crest directly.

A cool wrap around a pinnacle along the ridge.

Final slope to the summit.

High Peak summit, view south.

View east toward Peak 2620 (foreground) and Signal Peak (distance).
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