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West Chimney 

5.6

   

FA: Jerry Gallwas, Barbara Lilley, and others, Mar. 1953
Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.6 [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 150 feet
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Submitted By: Roger Linfield on Jul 5, 2006


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BETA PHOTO: "West Chimney".
Photo by Blitzo.



Description 

Climb a shallow squeeze chimney (crux) up to a large ledge at the base of the main chimney. Climb this large chimney (4th class) to the top.


Location 

The upper two thirds of this route is a very obvious chimney that splits the west face of the rock.


Protection 

light rack



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By Darshan Ahluwalia
Nov 20, 2006

first thirty feet are kind of hard if you don't know how to chimney. easy, but not recommended for beginners due to the required technical chimneying and offwidth... even at 5.6 chimney/offwidth can be made hard.

By Charles I.
Nov 5, 2007

Just did this awesome route for the first time. This is defintely one of my favorite lines up IR.