Mark Sprague told me about this crack a while back after he put in an anchor above it and tryed it a little on TR... Anyway the beta i had in mind took a good bit of cleaning of lichen and loose rocks... Today I went out to give it my first try... I came very close to an onsight on my first go, falling on the #6 cam in the crux... I cleaned the route and sent on my second go...
Basicly climb the low off-width roof how ever you can manage (I went upside down but who knows what you might come up with) and continue up the chimney above to the anchor...
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Im not sure on a letter grade but the "boulder problem" crux i felt was v4 or harder so it seemed like 5.12 made sense... I'd love other peoples opinion on the grade so climb it, Mark what did you think on a grade...
Thanks a bunch for telling me about it Mark...
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On the far left end of triple corners to the right of the fixed rope gully that goes toward the hinterlands...
Nice going, Lee! I can't help much with the grade. I only tried it once, on TR, and before the loose flakes inside were cleaned out. I wouldn't doubt the grade you propose. I used the flakes some and it still felt pretty hard and I ended up dropping out of the slot. Without the flakes to push off, I would imagine it would be much more strenuous and require interesting technique. I too ended up inverted part of the time.
It is cool that several hard, worthy trad lines have gone in at Rumney recently
Thanks Mark... i was not able to remove the main chock stone/flake in there which proved to be very helpful for my beta and i decided it was even solid enough to protect with... i did remove a bunch of rock and lichen which changed things a litle... Thanks again for getting me psyched on it!!!
haha yeah not a bad name... naming them is half the fun... the name i gave it had like 3 meanings... it came to me while looking at a picture of my wife walking an evil puppy we referred to as the devil, also i was planning on walking the #6 cam which is a devil of a size, and in the end i walked the route compared to what a devil i thought it would be... so there is the story... anyone who likes OW roofs will like this route...
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