Full day climb of the East Ridge with Scott Davies. We started from the upper parking lot at 6:15am (better would be to start from lower parking area along road at 5am). Lower ridge is easily scrambled on very blocky rock. Upper ridge is fairly easy climbing (5.3-5-4) but quite exposed, so we used a rope and a small rack (3 small cams, a set of nuts, 1/2 dozen extendable draws and a couple full length slings).
Reached summit at about 6:00pm. Coming from the east, there are 3 summits and the 2nd seems to be the highest but the summit register is at the third. The climb down the south west side is very tedious on loose scree and talus. Patience is useful here to avoid an unpleasant slip. The slopes start to cliff out near the bottom but there is a path through the gullies on skiers right. We were down to the valley trail around 9:00pm and hiked out by headlamp arriving back at the car about 1:00am.