Home - Destinations - People - Partners - Forum - Photos - What's New
 ADVANCED
The Trapps
Show routes:
Select route...
10,000 Restless Virgins 
48 
69 
Absurdland 
Airy Aria 
Alley Oop 
Anguish 
Annie Oh! 
Ants' Line 
Ape Call 
Apoplexy 
Arch to Wrist 
Arrow 
Asphodel 
Baby 
Badfinger 
Bag's End 
Balrog 
BB Route 
Beatle Brow Bulge 
Beginner's Delight 
Belly Roll 
Betty 
Birdie Party 
Bitchy Virgin 
Blackout, The 
Blistered Toe 
Blueberry Ledges 
Bold-Ville 
Bonnie's Roof 
Boston 
Bunny 
Calisthenic 
Carbs and Caffeine 
Casa Emilio 
Casablanca 
Cascading Crystal Kaleidoscope (CCK) 
CC Route 
CCK Direct 
City Lights 
City Streets 
Classic 
Coexistence 
Cold Turkeys 
Columbia 
Comedy In Three Acts 
Commando Rave 
Coronary 
Creaky Joints and Trigger Points 
Credibility Gap 
Crimson Corner 
Dangler, The 
Dennis 
Directissima 
Directississima 
Dirty Gerdie 
Double Chin 
Double Clutch 
Double Crack 
Drop Zone 
Drunkard's Delight 
Easy Overhang 
Easy Verschneidung (Easy V) 
Erect Direction 
Eyebrow 
Face to Face 
Fall, The 
Falled on Account of Strain 
Fancy Idiot 
Feast of Fools 
Finger Locks or Cedar Box 
Fitschen's Folly 
Friends and Lovers 
Frog's Head 
Frustration Syndrome 
Frustration Syndrome Direct Start 
Funny Face 
Golden Showers 
Gory Thumb 
Graveyard Shift 
Grim-Ace Face 
Groovy 
Han's Puss 
Harvard 
Hawk 
High Corner 
High Exposure 
Higher Stannard 
Horseman 
Hyjek's Horror 
Interstice 
Into Thin Hair 
Ivan and the Saum 
J'accuse 
Jackie 
Jacob's Ladder 
Jean 
Junior 
Kama Sutra 
Keep on Struttin' 
Ken's Crack 
Kligfield's Follies 
Last Will Be First, The 
Laughing Man 
Laurel 
Le Teton 
Limelight 
Lisa 
Lito and the Swan 
Lone Ranger, The 
Madame Grunnebaum's Wulst 
Maria 
Maria Direct 
Matinee 
MF 
Middle Earth 
Minty 
Modern Times 
Moonlight 
Mother's Day Party 
Nemesis 
Never Never Land 
Never Say Never 
Nice Crack Climb 
No Glow 
No Man's Land 
No Picnic 
Northern Pillar 
Nosedive 
Nurse's Aid 
Oblique Twique 
Obstacle Delusion 
On Any Monday 
P38 
Pas de Deux 
Peregrine 
Phoebe 
Pink Laurel 
PR 
Precarious Perch 
Proctor Silex 
Proctoscope 
Raubenheimer Special 
Raunchy 
Red Cabbage 
Red Pillar 
Retribution 
Rhododendron 
Ribless (a.k.a. Spare Ribs) 
Ribs 
Ridicullissima 
RMC 
Roddy 
Scene of the Climb 
Sente 
Shockley's Ceiling 
Silly Dickin 
Simple Suff 
Sixish 
Sleepwalk 
Snooky's Return 
Something Interesting 
Son of Bitchy Virgin 
Son of Easy O 
Space Invaders 
Splashtic 
Spring, The (P1) 
Squiggles 
Squiggles Direct 
Stand, The 
Star Action 
Sting, The 
Stirrup Trouble 
Strictly From Nowhere 
Sundown 
Supper's Ready 
Susie A 
Thin Slabs Direct 
Three Doves 
Three Pines 
Throne, The 
Tipsy Trees 
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 
Tough Shift 
Trapped Like a Rat 
Travels With Charley 
Triangle 
Trigger Point 
Triple Bulges 
Try Again 
Turdland 
Twin Oaks 
Updraft 
Uphill all the Way AKA The Man Who Fell to Earth 
Ursula 
V-3 
Ventre de Boeuf 
Walter Mitty 
Wasp 
Wasp Stop 
Welcome to the Gunks 
Wet Dreams 
Where Fools Rush In 
Wild Horses 
Willie's Weep 
Wisecrack 
Wonderland 
Wrist 
Yellow Wall, The 

Birdie Party 

5.10b

   

FA: FA - Jim McCarthy and Doug Thompkins, 1959, FFA - Kevin Bein, 1966
Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.10b [details]
Length: 2 pitches, 200 feet
Views: 220 page views

Submitted By: Jeff Mekolites on Feb 15, 2008


Add Photo  Add Comment 

You and this route  |  Other Opinions (7)
Your todo list:
Your stars:
Your rating: -none- [change]
Your ticklist: [add new tick]
 Printer Friendly View

Description 

Pitch one climbs a crack up and traverses right to a thin, tweaky crack, continue up past a short right facing corner. Above you there are bolts, if you clip 'em put a long runner on it, 'cause your about to head right. Way right, on an exciting ride. There is a pointed flake out there in the distance....head that way, when you get there don't forget about your second. Continue the exciting hand traverse across flake to the bolt anchors above MF. Belay.

Pitch two will require a bit of wandering to get up and into the business. From the belay head left a touch to a flake in the "ceiling", wait now come back right, now crank up and over the ceiling on the flake to a stance...don't forget about how your gonna pro this one up...don't kill yourself with rope drag. From here the route continues straight up connecting with MF.

We actually rapped from the mentioned stance above the crux on the second pitch. There was a scary fixed anchor that consisted of an alien with clipped wires, a TCU with clipped wires and a tricam...we lived.


Location 

MF/MAC Wall Trail, about a 7 minute walk...near MF, Mother's Day Party, etc...


Protection 

Standard trad rack



Add Comment Comments on Birdie Party
Show which comments
By Jay Knower
Administrator
Feb 17, 2008

Great description.

By JoeLeiper
Feb 19, 2008

In my opinion, one of the Gunks' best routes. First pitch has great face climbing, a big flake to fool with; second pitch roof is full body-length but well protected, with a nice little 5.7 runout above.