We left the summit of Capitol at 9:30am and finally bailed off the ridge around 5:15pm near North Snowmass at a section that stopped all of us dead in our tracks...a small section I call "the land of scary gendarmes'.
We came up roughly .2-.3 miles and 600ft. shy of our goal. We had to stop due to several factors working against us.
But, we'll be back next year to finish the 5 pitch 5.6 climb of North Snowmass and Snowmass.
The girlfriends (Stephanie & Brenda) were absolutely stellar and beyond necessary. They picked the smelly four of us up at the Lake Geneva TH in Lead King.
I'll go on record as saying...this ridge is just plain dangerous. I've never in all my forays into the San Juans or Elks have seen such massive quantities or size of loose rock.
The average size of stuff we knocked loose was prolly about the size of a microwave. The ridge is CONSISTENT in its' difficulties and was impossible to stay on the ridge crest.
I'll never go back and repeat it.
Anyway, here's a few pictures and a report will follow soon.
Noah, Steve, Mike....Sh*t...what a day.
Noah roughly half way across.
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I got some pretty good pictures of you all along the ridge (I just sent them to Kiefer so he can forward them to you). 
