Lucifer's Ladder 5.8 A3+
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| Type: | Trad, Aid, 8 pitches, 1200 feet, Grade VI |
| Consensus: | 5.8 A3+ [details] |
| FA: | Klaus Shock and Geoff Trump 1998 |
| Submitted By: | Nate Brown on Jan 7, 2010 |
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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.
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Description Perhaps the proudest aid route on the face. Hard off the deck, so thin you can't see the thing until you are on the route. Lots of beaking, lots of natural stretches of hooking, hard desert-alpine free climbing at the top. Another futuristic Klaus Route. Don't make this your first nailing route.
Location The route starts in the next crack lookers left of Angel Hair and goes plumb-line to the top.
Protection Full Aid rack, extra beaks, two sets of all hooks, big huevos. Please note: the A3+ rating relates to fall/injury potential and not to the difficulty. Furthermore, in keeping with Zion tradition, A3+ here is likely to be more severe than routes of the grade on the Captain.
| Comments on Lucifer's Ladder |
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By Nate Brown
From: Wilson, Wy
Jan 7, 2010
| I posted this route once before and erased it. A buddy (sounds like Jersey Dave) heckled me about it because it is not my route. Well, Klaus lives in AK and could give a shit about these things... Hell, he barely gave his routes names let alone topos (which he never drew). I feel it best to leave the topo out of this site in the style of Klaus.
Second ascent: Eric Draper and Brian Bird
Third Ascent: Nate Brown and John Selove
Fourth Ascent: Anyone???... Neither Klaus nor I will buy you beer, you won't become famous, chicks won't dig you any more than they already do... |
By Nate Brown
From: Wilson, Wy
Jan 7, 2010
| History Tidbits:
On the FA: Klaus dropped the nailinig rack and they tied all thier ropes, slings, aiders and tat together to get it back. They immediatly went back up and carried on.
On our ascent: John Selove rode a human-sized block out of the first pitch. Woah! We called the bivi ledge atop pitch 6 "Satan's Sundeck". |
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