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Note: These three images stretch out quite wide. Please pan your
browser to view the full set. Looking at the "three-toed" buttress
from the Southeast Glacier, the two standard chutes are easy to pick
out in the right panel of these three photos. All the way to the
right is Secor's chute, wide, relatively shallow, and very
blocky climbing. Just to the left of Secor's chute is a narrow,
steep, and climber-unfriendly chute. Been there, done that, never
want to see that Teflon-slick slate again!
Owen's chute is at the right-hand edge of the left panel, where
the third "toe" of the buttress projects out into the SE Glacier.
It is not visible from this angle, since you climb to the end of
the "toe" and basically make a U-turn to get to it. It is, however,
at the shallowest angle of the three and presents an eminently-doable
second-class route from the glacier to the upper bowl.
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