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Virginia City 

Hop Sing 

5.8

   

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Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.8 [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 115 feet
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Submitted By: tony grice on Jan 11, 2007


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Description 

Hop sing is an awesome 5.8 crack! Cool slashes decorate this crack.
Great, hard ,almost polished rock for 115 ft or so. Splitter for the grade. you will love it.
Nice jams, classic movement.
Do it!


Location 

left side of the wall next to a large detached flake crack. start in a pit. Walk off left. Look for the grey slashes in the crack that distinguish this fine climb. sunny mid morning to afternoon.


Protection 

cams lots of #3's,I placed a 3.5 and a 4. Nothing smaller than #1.
The anchor in the cave above sucks CHOSSS! maybe belay a little lower. Walk off left



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By C Miller
Administrator
Jan 11, 2007
rating: 5.8

While enjoyable, this is hardly a classic in my book.

By Adam Stackhouse
Administrator
From: Escondido, Ca
Jan 11, 2007

Tony, did you mean to imply nothing "smaller" than a #1 cam?

By tony grice
Jan 22, 2007

YES SIR I did mean nothing smaller than a #1 cam.
Sorry to each his own , i thought it was an awsome fun route for the grade and there are not a lot of killer 5.8 cracks around. Maybe I was a bit batty for the 4 stars but I really liked this one.

By Dave Cox
Jan 23, 2007

Fun climb with a slick beginning,and a nice location.