Captain Kronos 

Ha! I remember this climb. Is'nt it so typical to show up at JTree with high hopes of bagging some sick hard lead, only to get beat down on the warm-up. Yea, it was hard, I was scared. Prolly bouldered the rest of the day.

It's good to see the upgrading to 5.9! Having just climbed it (Feb. 03) thinking it was a 5.7, I felt quite sketched out. Big sandbag! Besides the "thin" start it is somewhat sustained and awkward.

More comparable to Jerry Brown (at .10b) than to most 5.7s, in my opinion.

Are you people getting soft? I led this wearing cowboy boots with a head full of blotter acid. I never could climb anything harder than 5.7 on a good day.

Lets set the record straight. It was boxing gloves and roller skates and 5.7 in his wildest dreams.

Wow, a Howard King sighting on a climbing web site. Did you misread this address, Howard???? This Climbingjtree.com not Birdingjtree.com. I'm gonna have to add this to my State and County lists.

And yes, I thought Capt. Kronos was hard for 5.7!!! Probably cuz I did it WITHOUT the cowboy boots and blotter!!!!

And Last year I saw the film "Captain Kronos, Vampire Killer." It's as bad as the route!!!

hehehehehe

-r-

A good route but, curiously, more difficult than Brownian Motion (10a) next door.

What a slug in the face Joshua Tree climbing was when we did this in 1989...5.7? Wow...what a way to introduce someone to Jtree trad....hahahaha

Green metolious can be place off the block in a shallow horizontail. You can then start from the begining or just go from the block.

This is one of those courses that probably won't be quite as much fun the second time around, because it won't make you think as much about how to do the start. A good pitch.

Enjoyed this climb alot have to return to do Jerry Brown.

Really good route! Deserves more stars than it gets. Once you pass the face move down low, it is continously enjoyable jamming all the way to the top. The face move about 15' off the ground protects perfectly with a pink tricam. You do have one of those on your rack don't you? :) I brought a #4 camalot and it went in perfectly at a wider spot.

I started from the ground, seemed logical. Only runout for a little bit in easier terrain. If not for rock quality this would get a solid three stars. Yes, not 5.7.

Not a 5.7! Kind of ackward in the right leaning crack, more footholds on the face would have been nice. Started from the ground and it was definetly don't blow it territory.