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Hey, This Isn't Kamp's Ridge
5.9- YDS 5c French 17 Ewbanks VI UIAA 16 ZA HVS 4c British
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| Type: | Trad, 1000 ft (303 m), 6 pitches, Grade III |
| FA: | Brett Wines & Tom McLaughlin - August 22, 2015 |
| Page Views: | 1,577 total · 15/month |
| Shared By: | Brett Wines on Dec 6, 2015 |
| Admins: | Andrew Gram, Nathan Fisher, Perin Blanchard, GRK, D C |
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Description
Start with 300 feet or so of 4th-class with a protectable mantle 30 feet in. Then trek up a wide and long rockbed that goes further up the mountain. Head straight up for two or three hours until you arrive at a rock wall, then go right a while almost until a dead-end: this is the pitch shown in the photo. Go up for a fantastic lieback; the hardest climbing of the route.
After the lieback pitch, there aren't any solid pro placements if you go up, so instead traverse left 60m or so to the edge of the ridge and around for probable(?) linking with the Kamp's Ridge route.
Can also be accessed - as we did - by going up and down the two or three ridges closer to the parking lot with medium to heavy bushwhacking in between. These ridges don't have many gear placement opportunities but are (spectacular) 4th-class scrambling so you can simulclimb it.
After the lieback pitch, there aren't any solid pro placements if you go up, so instead traverse left 60m or so to the edge of the ridge and around for probable(?) linking with the Kamp's Ridge route.
Can also be accessed - as we did - by going up and down the two or three ridges closer to the parking lot with medium to heavy bushwhacking in between. These ridges don't have many gear placement opportunities but are (spectacular) 4th-class scrambling so you can simulclimb it.
Location
Approach as for Kamp's Ridge -- "park at the Neff's Canyon trailhead and follow a broad dirt road / trail to a stream crossing where the trail forks. Head right here."
You'll pass a waterhole / pool of drainage water on your left with graffiti. For direct access to the main ridge of the climb, find the Kamp's Ridge trail (head straight), which heads up the right side of the canyon, until you see a creekbed -- get on it and follow it deeper into the canyon past the ridges on the right until it veers right. Follow it until its end and then further a bit until you find a good place to start climbing.
Disclaimer -- our memory of this location is faulty and this description is OK at best, but the nice thing about this area is that it's all one great climbing adventure, so you can pretty much climb any of the ridges and eventually end up at this climb :P
You'll pass a waterhole / pool of drainage water on your left with graffiti. For direct access to the main ridge of the climb, find the Kamp's Ridge trail (head straight), which heads up the right side of the canyon, until you see a creekbed -- get on it and follow it deeper into the canyon past the ridges on the right until it veers right. Follow it until its end and then further a bit until you find a good place to start climbing.
Disclaimer -- our memory of this location is faulty and this description is OK at best, but the nice thing about this area is that it's all one great climbing adventure, so you can pretty much climb any of the ridges and eventually end up at this climb :P
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