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Type: Backcountry or Sidecountry

Do not park on the highway! If CDOT hasn't plowed out the lot adjacent to the Pumphouse Basin TH, drive to a pullout that has been cleared. Always make sure you're right of the white line!

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Cross the road from the parking area on the east side of the road. Stay in the bottom of the valley until a large meadow beneath Russell Peak. Turn southwest and follow a natural weakness in the trees up some gullies until you emerge below the northeast face of No Name Bench.

Turn south and cut a manageable track close to the trees below the slopes saving the best slopes for the descent. You'll get to reuse this track on your many laps of the face!