Knot Head 5.9
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| Type: | Sport, 1 pitch, 70 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.9 [details] |
| FA: | Unknown |
| Submitted By: | Ron Olsen on Oct 11, 2003 |
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Description Knot Head is an old trad route that has been retro-bolted into a sport route. It is the second bolted line left of Dune, just left of Phase Dance, on the left wall of the alcove.
Follow thin to hand-sized cracks and face up the steep wall to the anchors. Be careful to avoid a loose flake at the top.
A good warm-up route.
Protection 9 bolts to a 2-bolt anchor.
Per Jason Halladay: a standard rack would suffice for climbing the route entirely on gear, but the bolts for "The Opportunist" can easily be clipped from the crack.
By ?????
Oct 20, 2003
| Watch out for lots of loose rock. I almost got hit by a 12x12 in piece! |
By Matt Price
Oct 9, 2007
rating: 5.9
| It seems like the bolted route is mostly on the face left of the cracks / trad route. Either way, it is very easy and tempting to use the cracks, which makes it an option for a beginning leader. |
By Jason Halladay
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From: Los Alamos, NM
Mar 31, 2013
| The route described here is "The Opportunist". Knot Head may indeed be the crack, though. I don't know the history of this wall. But the bolted line is "The Opportunist" as described by the guidebooks. |
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