Big Top  5.12a

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Type:  Trad, 70 feet Consensus:  5.12a [details] FA:  Lynn Hill, Russ Raffa Season:  gets sun, stays dry in rain Submitted By:  camhead on May 16, 2011 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

This is a very aesthetic-looking splitter crack, which starts about forty feet up and above a roof. To start, you can either scramble up easy terrain to the left, or do a direct start through some steep horizontals that adds some 5.11 R climbing. Easy climbing up to a juggy roof with some suspect rock, clip a couple fixed pieces, and get an almost-no hands rest at the base of the splitter.

I don't want to give too much beta away on the splitter, except to say that there is very little true jamming/crack climbing on this route.

Location 

This is the farthest right prominent line at the Mango Tango/Greatest Show area. Very nice looking splitter going up white rock.

Protection 

medium to big stoppers, selection of mid-sized cams, one fixed stopper just above the roof, and a bolt right above that. You'll probably want a .5 camalot/orange Metolius sized piece to protect the crux.