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Description
Super fun and long Spring alpine climb. Props if you do it car to car.
Follow the snowfield up to gain the ridge proper. Take a steep narrow snow gully for several hundred feet until you can easily step over onto the rocks out left. Follow weaknesses all the way up to the top of the ridge and onto the summit.
Backtrack down the North Ridge and descend either of the two approach routes.
Location
Park at the Mill B South Fork Trailhead in Big Cottonwood Canyon.
Two Options
Longer but a better outing
Take the Mill B South Fork Trail and hike up to Lake Blanche. Halfway up the trail you will see Dromedary peak and the North Ridge. Once at lake Blanche you can either setup camp or keep going if doing the climb car to car. Traverse West past a few more lakes and really cool glacially sculpted smooth rock until you get to a stream of rapids. Find a decent place to cross the stream (crux) and begin the decently long hike up the snowfield to gain the ridge.
Shorter
Take the Broads Fork Trail up to the Broads Fork meadow. Once at the meadow follow the faint hiker's trail up to upper Broads Fork, like you would to access Twin Peaks, then bear left and follow the snowfield up to the ridge.