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Donnie G

Submitted By: Ryan Curry on Feb 23, 2009
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Description 

The Donnie G is the first formation encountered upon arriving when hiking up the standard approach. It serves as a good starting point as it's fairly centrally located and it contains one of the areas finest moderates, the classic Whisker Biscuit. Also, the climbs here get sun nearly all-day making them a good choice on cooler days.


Getting There 

Finding the Donnie G is easy. After the final stretch of the approach through the large well-spaced trees look for an obvious granite "stalactite" hanging about 25 ft. off the ground. This is the Arrowhead (5.11a). Immediately to the right lies Whisker Biscuit (5.9).


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Donnie G:
Whisker Biscuit   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   
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Featured Route For Donnie G
Julie Gordon getting ready to sample Whisker Biscuit. Directly above her is Arrowhead (5.11a) which moves left under the "stalactite" into a hand and finger crack.

Whisker Biscuit 5.9  CA : Tahoe Vicinity : ... : Donnie G
With a variety of crack sizes, excellent and easy to place protection, and plenty of sun, Whisker Biscuit is a great introduction to Woodford's climbing. Starting above a nice belay clearing climb up to a small ledge and cruise up a fun thin-hands crack that turns briefly to fingers and leads to a prominent roof. Trend right under the roof into a hand crack that splits a bulge (first crux). Pull the bulge and continue up an ever-widening, leaning...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA