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Edgehogs 

5.10c

   

FA: Bob Gaines and Clark Jacobs, August 1992
Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.10c/d [details]
Length: 2 pitches, 250 feet
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Submitted By: Roger Linfield on Feb 24, 2006


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Description 

This is an enjoyable two pitch face climb, with good protection. Pitch 1 is 5.9, and pitch 2 is 5.10c. The second pitch is 150 feet long.


Protection 

A few bolts and maybe some gear on pitch 1. Eight bolts, one fixed pin, and no gear on pitch 2. Rappel off with two ropes



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By Chris Owen
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From: La Crescenta, CA
Mar 4, 2006
rating: 5.11a

Wander up to a bolt anchor for pitch 1. I cheated and rapped off from the top of pitch 2 so I'll only describe my impressions of that...I have 5.11b scrawled in the margins of my dog-eared guide. There was a very tricky bit for me at the beginning of the second pitch, which felt quite hard. I failed to clip a bolt (got distracted by someone telling me I was off route, they thought I was on MMT) just before heading left up wavy/undulating rock - this gave me increasingly scary moments before getting to the next bolt - luckily I didn't fall. I brought Tony up and when he got to my missed clip I said to him "you'd think someone would have put a bolt right there" - he replied with "there is one".

By Scotty Nelson
From: San Diego
May 11, 2006

Be sure to move left onto the face at the end of pitch 2. I took several falls trying to climb directly up the arete.

Also, I cut my rope when I slipped off pitch 4. I was tryign to climb up the arete (off route again -- you move left) when I slipped off. The rope scoured along the edge of the very sharp arete and it was cut almost halfway through. Very scary. I retied in below the cut and finished the pitch, quite shaken.