Grasshopper  5.9

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Type:  Trad, 1 pitch, 180 feet Consensus:  5.9 [details] FA:  Submitted By:  Bryan G on May 3, 2010 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Seasonal Raptor Closures MORE INFO >>> The following cliffs will be closed to climbing beginning March 1, 2012: Angels Landing, Cable Mountain, The Great White Throne (beyond single- and double-pitched climbs), Isaac (in Court of the Patriarchs), The Sentinel, Mountain of the Sun, North Twin Brother, Tunnel Wall, The East Temple, Mount Spry, The Streaked Wall, Mount Kinesava, and the Middle Fork of Taylor Creek. All other cliffs will remain open to climbing. See www.nps.gov/zion/parknews/2012-climbing-closures-announced.h>>> for more info This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund, and Mountain Project. You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment

Description 

This is quite the intimidating lead. Come prepared with an arsenal of big cams. It is much longer and wider than it looks from the ground.

Start about 30 feet left of Rookie Crack. Scramble up some loose rock to the base of the crack. Hand and fist jam through the initial overhanging buldge to get established in the offwidth. The rest of the climb is relatively easy and hard to fall out of, but man it's a long way to those anchors. The crack is #4 Camalot for a ways (which might be fists for some people) and then it widens to #5's for the second half. 3 bolt anchor and rappel. You need two ropes to get down.

Location 

The attractive right facing corner just left of Rookie Crack, on the south face of the Great White Throne.

Protection 

Some hand or fist sized stuff for the start and then as many #4's and #5's as you can get a hold of.