Chicken Little 5.8+
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| Type: | Sport, 1 pitch, 75 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.9+ [details] |
| FA: | SA, Abishek Chandrashakur, Jay Ladin |
| Season: | Spring, Summer, Fall |
| Submitted By: | Scott Ayers on Aug 8, 2008 |
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Description Delusional scenarios of the sky falling are even less probable than climbers plummeting from this fun warm-up climb. This route begins below a few small roofs located just left of a prominent, right-facing corner capped by a roof. Work past the small roofs to a seam, then step right at its top to beautiful stone leading to a steep, final right-facing weakness, then to the anchors. (Squeezing the Lemmon quality scale: 1 out of 3 stars.)
Variation: The prominent, right-facing corner capped by the roof mentioned above has also been lead, and joins the line at half-height (5.8, pro to 3”).
Location Upper left end of the wall.
Protection 9 bolts.
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By Charles Vernon
From: Florence, AZ
Oct 25, 2011
rating: 5.10-
| Wow, Joe, it's hard to believe we were climbing the same route! Glad you had such a good experience on it. Maybe I'll have to take another look sometime.
I think part of my animosity stems from an expectation that a 5.8 sport route would be a relative cruise, but this route was insecure and awkward the whole way, especially up high. Felt more like 5.10 to me and caught me by surprise-I thought seriously about grabbing a draw up there! |
By greg k
Oct 25, 2011
rating: 5.10-
| Charles, I think Joe got this one right, really an overlooked/undiscovered/intentionally ignored/unintentionally unobserved classic with heads up climbing at the start and finish. You're right about the rating though, this ain't no grandma's climb (oops, sorry Emily) |
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