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The Ridge between "Fancy Peak" and Unnamed 13,786' goes at class 3 with some moderate routfinding and exposure. I couldnt find any beta on this so here it is! Whiteny Peak could definitely be added to this route if you needed all three.
The ridge has several prominent towers. A couple of them you can traverse on the east side, some you can go straight over, one small one goes on the west side. The route finding isnt bad if youre pretty used to this kind of terrain. Most of the towers had a shear cliff on one side and a nice "lord of the rings" trail on the other so its usually a no brainer figuring out which side you want to be on.
Theres a nice grassy ledge that climbs east around this first tower, EZ PZ. (though there are some class III moves near the top)
Slight left and up and over this tower
Left down and around this steep spire, the east side is a cliff.
Downclimb class 3 stuff off this tower, then traverse on the east side below the next tower. Eventually youll want to get back on the ridge proper cause its almost through the crux but there are climb-down-and-around options too to avoid some exposed sections.
Only about a third of the traverse is class 3 with exposure the rest is very easy, just walking on talus. I was glad to hit these two peaks this way as other trip reports show people climbing WAY back down into the valley and back up again.
My GPS Tracks on Google Maps (made from a .GPX file upload):
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