Artem's Ramp
Approaching the Torre. Photo by Jack Cramer. Since we had a good time on the Torre De Mierda last year, Jack invited me to go up and check out the other line he spied on the face in the middle of February. Last year we started the day with fun, fast, and frightening skiing across a frozen Convict Lake. With an even warmer and drier winter that wasn't a realistic option this time, so we started skinning around the lake and up into the hanging valley below Morrison. Questing on Pitch 1. Photo by Jack Cramer. We were aiming for a ramp system left of Jamaican Lager. The system starts a few hundred feet off the ground, and at first it looked like we could traverse in from the left. After screwing around there for a while we found the climbing and protection wasn't to our liking and dropped down a couple hundred feet, closer to the front part of the face. Jack nearing the pitch 1 belay. Moderate but runout and wandery climbing took us to the snow ledge at the bottom of the ramp. Jac