Pictures of North Guard

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Highlights

From start to end

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Click here for Part 1: From Roads End to the Sphinx Lakes

The north side of Sphinx Pass

Brewer drainage and view west

North Guard emerging on the left

Mt Brewer

Straight ahead is North Guard

Up in the creekbed

North Guard right in the middle

North Guard

Mt Brewer

Behind us the Brewer drainage

Mt Brewer

Brewer drainage and Great Western Divide

Mt Brewer

The three chutes

Sphinx Lakes

North Guard on the left (right chute)

Towards the middle chute

Entering the middle chute

Middle chute

The chute from above

Summit block from the west ridge

Location of the tunnel

Climbing to the tunnel

The tunnel

Exit of the tunnel

Sphinx Lakes

Ouch... the summit

Towards the summit

The flake to the west ridge

Climbing the flake to cross the west ridge

Towards the summit

The summit

The register is on this boulder

East Lake

Brewer's eastern approach

Sphinx Lakes from the top

View south

View north