The first pitch is the crux and provides the only real technical climbing on the route. Climb up fun, hard-to-protect choss for a good rope length, weaving left and right to avoid some steeper, chossier sections. I left a knifeblade in a horizontal crack before one of the roofs. After topping out, walk right a few feet and belay there. A small angle piton was left fixed.

None of the pitches after the first require technical gear... and the first pitch could even be avoided by going up the snow gully to the left or scrambling up easier rock to the right.

From the belay, unrope (stashing your rock gear would probably be a good idea, too) and walk up (west) the ridge until you see the low-angled 4th class rock as marked in the topo pic. Carefully cross the snowy gully and climb several hundred vertical feet of rock that gets easier the closer you get to the top. The actual summit of the peak is a 5 minute scramble to the south.

North Face Direct

Regular North Face Route

This is a fun, easy snow route on the north face of Freedom Peak. Head up the snow slopes for several hundred feet to the obvious right-slanting couloir/gully. Follow this until it ends at the ridge and follow the ridge to the top of the peak. There are a couple 3rd class sections near the summit, but they are short and very easy.

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Routes in Freedom Peak