Night Stalker 

FA:  Mark Norden, Bruce Adams 1974 Type:  Trad Length:  1 pitch, 70 feet Views: 185 page views Submitted By: Ivan Rezucha on Jan 21, 2005 Add Photo  Add Comment

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Night Stalker is the large shadowed left facing co...

Description 

I thought this was a challenging and interesting climb, but, if you don't messing with wide cracks, you may disagree. It's just a bit dirty at the start. Then stemming and some strangeness leads to what was for me a mysterious crux near the top.

Rossiter and Rolofson call this 5.8, but it seemed pretty hard compared to some of the 9's at Blob, so I'll give it a 9.

The two-bolt anchor, though convenient, is recent and unnecessary, since you can easily scramble down and left from the anchor to the ground.

Start: From where the trail hits the base of Blob, hike left and up. Scramble up a slab. There is a large right facing corner (Divine Wind). Left of that is a roof with a couple of very hard bolted lines. Left of that is the large left facing corner of Night Stalker.

A few stemming moves get your hands to a ledge. You can place a green Alien from the ground to keep you upright, should you fall here. With your hands on the ledge, you can place a hand-sized (or two) at the base of the corner. Once you're standing on the ledge the climbing up the corner is straightforward until you get to a wide section with some strangeness. Easy climbing leads to steeper rock and the crux. Save at least a #4 Friend for the crux.

Protection 

Double cams from green Alien to #4 Friend (#3 Camalot may be too small). A #4 Camalot will make it a bit more secure. Single set of nuts. Rap from a 2-bolt anchor with one rope.

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The crux is where the left wall bulges out to almo...	BETA PHOTO: Night Stalker. Climb the left-facing corner with ...	Stem the right facing corner off the ground until ...
Entering the first wide part. It's not unpleasant,...	Peering up into the second wide part. It's pretty ...	You can face left and chimney or face right using ...