Crestone Peak North Buttress route question

[polar]

I usually don't ask questions about a particular route (ie. never), because there's usually enough TRs and forum threads out there to help figure everything out. However, I'm pretty confused by a single photo (below) that appeared in two different TRs written by people who climbed the route together.



Quoting rohit's TR:

I borrowed following picture from maverick_manley. According to him, we should be on the blue line, but we're on the red line. If you're going now, just make sure to stay at the blue line as much as possible.

The actual route should be in blue, but we're ended up on RED.... the so called NORTH PILLAR

But quoting maverick_manley's TR:

Joe marked out the routes on many of the pictures that follow (Thanks, man). The blue line marks the route we took and red marks the NW Buttress route that looks more fun, in retrospect.

So rohit said he got his picture and beta from maverick_manley, that would indicate that maverick_manley's beta is the correct one (red line is the NW buttress route), but based on some of the other TRs I've read, I feel like rohit is correct (blue line is the NW buttress route). Soooo... a little help from people who has done it?

[Broken Knee]

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/1 ... h-buttress

I nicked this picture from Mountain Project. It looks like I remember the route to be, although I think our path at the bottom curved to the left as you view it in the pic.

[Boggy B]

The topo on MP didn't look right to me. We stayed basically on the ridge according to my GPS tracks.

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Orange = 2010, Red = 2013

[Conor]

somewhere between the cyan line from broken knee and the red line polar posted. It's pretty intuitive and basically rock hopping until the very top where everything sort of comes together.

[polar]

The topo on MP didn't look right to me. We stayed basically on the ridge according to my GPS tracks.

I agree, the photo on MP seems off. But it’s not the first time I found the beta on MP to be incorrect. In case anyone in the future look at this thread and wonder what came out of it, I drew the route we took on north buttress.

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[Marmot72]

This route has puzzled me at intervals ever since I did it in 2007 and then joined this site. When I attempted it, the next hardest thing I had tried was Wetterhorn, and my only references were Roach and Dawson. I am pretty sure I took the red line. The thing that baffles me is the supposed down climb from the false summit to the real one. I recall looking down a narrow red gully off the north side as clearly as if it happened last week, but all of the down climb pictures I've seen to reach this point seem way steeper and exposed than I recall.