In [Mi4,BrocCM1], Minsky, Brock and Canary gave a proof of Thurston’s Ending Lamination Conjecture for indecomposable hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In this paper, we offer another approach to this which was inspired by the original. Many of the key results are similar, though the overall logic is somewhat different. A possible advantage is that much of the relevant theory of “hierarchies” and other, ...