Carpe Freeum 5.11a
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| Type: | Trad, 1 pitch, 85 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.11a [details] |
| FA: | Tom Howard, Lee Carter |
| Season: | spring, summer, fall |
| Submitted By: | gneiss pirate on Jun 15, 2009 |
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Description Start directly beneath the overhanging corner. Move up and left then back right, placing a few tcus. Climb straight up into the corner. Crank the stout corner move and float up the remaining crack/corner to one of the best belay ledges in the gorge.
To get down you have two choices. Move up and left to a large pine tree or locate a bolted anchor on the front of the belay ledge.
Location Located at Middle Hawksbill. Follow the trail down from the main wall past all of the sport routes. Just past a long low roof is a steep, overhanging, left facing corner. This is it.
Protection Medium tcus and medium to large cams. 2 yellow camalots are helpful.
By Coz Teplitz
From: Watertown, MA
Jun 17, 2009
rating: 5.10+
| I think this is a great route - wonderful rock, cool moves, deliciously steep without being heinously so. However, I think it's much easier than 5.11b/c - I give it a 5.10+. Maybe it's 'cause I'm tall, but I expected to fall on this many more times than I did.
Whatever the grade, it's worth the effort. |
By Ben Sachs
Jun 18, 2009
rating: 5.11-
| Short crux and huge holds make this one pretty reasonable. Probably not 5.10 but certainly easier than other 5.11s around. |
By sean barb
From: winston salem, north carolina,
Aug 29, 2009
rating: 5.11-
| that belay ledge and its spot in the gorge is 4 stars. |
By wes calkins
Sep 4, 2011
| Finally got the redpoint after a few days of effort. What an awesome pitch. I thought the gear was the crux but then again i am only 5'5. Definitively thought that it was an 11 though it did have solid holds through the crux. |
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