Finally #10 for 4 days. The traverse from the Mid peak was worse than I had anticipated. The gendarmes required more climbing than I had thought, although the west side of all of them seemed like the way to go. A few high exposures with dire consequences, but fortunately there are only four gendarmes to get over. Once these are overcome the rest is just a walk up. Had a flock of tweety birds strafe me at the top which kind of shocked me, not sure what they were doing up at 9000 feet.