Anyone done it?
I was eyeing it for a fun out of the way climb in a trip to RR in a few weeks.
I dont want blow by blow beta, but it would nice to know if it is worth a day of my trip to RR.

is it mostly 5th class with some 5.8 moves?
sustained 5.8 at 8 pitches?
runout crazy hardman stuff?

Thanks in advance

a smith

I liked it. There were sections of 5.8 with a bunch of easier climbing. If you go for the kinds of routes that involve real mountaineering, you'll probably like this. Lots of routefinding, bigger than it looks, non-trivial descent. Rock quality was generally good, but nothing you could take for granted.

Worth noting that the photo in the Handren guidebook does not really show the right start. We jumped onto the ridge itself at a notch in the white rock. The "direct" route up the red rock was dripping wet and looked impossible to protect. Probably hard, too.

Where are you coming from?

wisconsin
spring break trip