On 17/02/2015 simey wrote:
>The Original Route starts to the right of the route you are describing
>(not to the left) and from a ledge almost directly behind the Totem Pole.
Thanks for that. We would not have worked that out from the existing material.
>Unfortunately the guidebooks describing the routes up the Candlestick
>provide very little information and the information they do provide is
>all messed up as it confuses the two routes. It's all very annoying, especially
>as the Candlestick is quite a serious undertaking (arguably more serious
>than climbing the Totem Pole even though the climbing isn't as difficult).
Agree. The Tote did look 'convenient' by comparison, and the climbing up the (partly bolted) 24 up the front looks good.