We parked just off of Northshore Road and hiked the dirt road that runs between Slabs Peak and Knife Peak as a warmup. Once past the 2 mountains, we turned back and started up Slabs Peak from the NW. There was a lot of horrible talus, but we eventually made the ridgeline, which immediately turned into a knife-edge. We followed for a ways, but got to a spot that none of us really felt comfortable with, about 1000 linear feet from the summit. To pass, it would have required a super sketchy exposed traverse of a featureless flake, which none of us were up for today. We descended pretty much the same way we came up, then made our way to the north side of Knife Peak, looking for a non-technical way to the obvious saddle. We found one that worked and made our way up. Nothing terribly difficult, but it was loose and steep. Once at the summit, we had a snack and came down the south side, which was trickier than it looked from the top.