Deceptively steep corner with fun stemming and jamming down low. Up higher, follow a face crack. Pitch two moves left and then right and up. Limited protection and some hollow rock but easy climbing. If you don't have rope drag on pitch one, consider doing the entire route as one long pitch. Fun climb.
Location
Starts in a steep right facing corner. Make two single rope rappels from two sets of fixed anchors. The upper anchors are to the right.
Just cause it used to be rated 5.9 doesn't mean it ever was. A sandbag 20 years ago is the same as a sand bag now. This route is, and always has been, as hard as any of the .10a's on Chimney Rock.
I dunno Jim......Old Hut guide: 5.9....Steiger: 5.9....My notes from when I first did it (and 5.9 was near my limit then):"Nice. Sustained, reasonable 5.9".
Guess I'll have to do it again and see what I think now.
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