Flight Path 5.8+
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| Type: | Trad, 1 pitch, 140 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.8+ [details] |
| FA: | Tom Beck |
| Submitted By: | rockratrei on Jan 24, 2006 |
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BETA PHOTO: Flight Path area
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Description A buttress to the east of other routes described here. Start left of a huge cave, up a pillar to a bolt on the face and across some choss into an alcove -- pull the roof and continue up a crack and varnished plates. I think a second pitch has been done -- not sure about anchors.
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BETA PHOTO: Flight Path, pitch 1
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BETA PHOTO: Flight Path, upper p1, anchor marked
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By John Hegyes
From: Las Vegas, NV
Dec 28, 2006
| We rapped from the two-bolt anchor atop pitch 1 with two 60-meter ropes. |
By Tavis Ricksecker
From: Bishop, ca
Jan 1, 2007
| I found this route to be very chossy. Several holds crumbled on me. Maybe it has cleaned up since then? But I wouldn't recommend it. |
By Thomas Beck
From: Las Vegas, Nevada
Dec 5, 2008
| There used to be some pruned scrub oak at the starting corner. Ignore the first bolt (uncompleted project) and use gear to traverse right out of the corner to a bomb bay alcove in varnish. Pull the easy roof move and clip a bolt. Continue up the crack past 2 or 3 more bolts then traverse left to a 2 bolt anchor. Traversing right on questionable rock takes you to a project anchor.
Second pitch is 5.8 has one bolt and is on "angel food" white sandstone.
Third pitch climbs out of an alcove, move up and right to 2 bolts at a bulge, then follow cracks to the summit. That pitch is about 10b. I remember using a Red Tricam to protect one of 9 moves higher up on this pitch. |
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