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climber A long way from where I started

Aug 22, 2010 - 05:01pm PT The only ascent of Odin recorded in Mark Synott's recent guidebook is the big gully splitting the south face (not visible in the picture). The summit must have been reached by some other route(s), but who knows? Odin is one of the easiest peaks to get to on the whole island, but it is just so incomprehensibly huge that I imagine a lot of parties have turned back without getting anywhere near the top.



It's hard to grasp the scale when your looking at it from across the valley. The summit is a little over 7,000 ft (2,143 meters), the valley bottom is barely above sea leavel, and other than a few hundred feet of approach scree, it's all granite. The small sub-peak directly above the Arctic Circle cairn in the photo is 4,500 ft, and Odin towers another 2,500 ft above that.



