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Hold The Line 

5.9

   

FA: Ron Olsen and Mike Amato, 3/14/07
New Route: Yes
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.9 [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 100 feet
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Submitted By: Ron Olsen on Mar 15, 2007


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Hold The Line is a fun new sport route on the Bihedral, about 30' left of Rhodian Shores. It features the same high-quality stone but is a grade easier. Varied climbing that makes you think.

Angle left up a ramp to the first bolt. Climb up past 5 bolts, mostly 5.7-5.8 with a spot of 5.9. Clip the 6th bolt and work up into a V-corner (crux). An optional red Alien/purple Camalot can be placed after the 6th bolt. Climb past a wedged chockstone at the top of the corner, and angle left up a slab to a 2-bolt anchor on a nice ledge.

Belay from here or lower 100' back to the start.


Location 

Start on a ramp about 30' left of Rhodian Shores.


Protection 

9 bolts to a 2-bolt anchor with lowering hooks. An optional red Alien/purple Camalot can be placed after the 6th bolt. Lower/rappel 100' back to the start.



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Luke at the crux. On the left is Ken Parker nearing the top of Dan's line.

Luke at the crux. On the left is Ken Parker nearin...


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By Brenda Leach
Mar 17, 2007

This is a fun addition to the set of moderate routes on the Bihedral. Well-bolted. I didn't feel the need for placing a piece of gear at the crack and instead used the crack for a layback. Fun route and a good warm-up for the area.

By Jake Wyatt
From: Longmont, CO
Mar 18, 2007

Nice and long (by BC standards) pitch with solid climbing the entire way up.

By Gary Schmidt
From: Boulder, CO
Mar 19, 2007

I found this to be fun and interesting climb. A few moves over which to ponder including an interesting, somewhat mildly runout crux (which can be protected with a smaller cam if you so choose though I didn't find it necessary). Good climb with a nice length!

By Nick Wilder
Site Landlord
Apr 26, 2007

Good moves with some nice variation. Well bolted, don't bother bringing gear.

By Chris O'Connor
From: Boulder, Co
Sep 4, 2007
rating: 5.9

Great route! Above the wedged chockstone I pulled on a jug only to be shocked by finding my stomach jumping out of my mouth. I yelled rock and the 20-35 lb block landed 15ft from my belayer! Man, we were lucky. Just thought I'd let everyone know there is more potentially loose rock up there, surprising because the rock looks and most of it is great. Wear your brain bucket!

By Michael Walker
From: Loveland, CO
Nov 17, 2007

Felt like a 5.7 route. Contrived. Would have enjoyed gear where the cracks were on the overlaps, therefore, felt like a sport route for the sake of being a sport route. Yawn.

By Ivan Rezucha
Jan 13, 2008

The general line has been toproped by me and undoubtedly others using the Rhodian Shores anchors and/or Bihedral Arete rap anchor. I believe I did the lower half (on TR) further right using the more difficult left angling seam. As bolted, I kept trying not to use the crack on the left feeling that using that was cheating, but without it the lower half would be more difficult than the rating.