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Catalyst 

5.12b

   

FA: Jeff Frizzel, Tom Egan, Dec 1988
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.12b [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 80 feet
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Submitted By: David Tvedt on Apr 1, 2006


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Description 

A continuous onslaught of challenging moves lead to a thin crux just before the anchors. Catalyst climbs like a continuous series of intriguing boulder problems broken by ledge rests. As a (sport) classic in its own right, it however feels to me to be a bit close to the ultra-classic Cruel Sister (trad) on the right.


Location 

Catwalk cliff (south side of the Crooked River). On the collumn just left of Cruel Sister.


Protection 

Bolts.



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By Vernon Stiefel
Jun 11, 2006
rating: 5.12b

This bolted basalt column is one of the best in the Lower and Upper Gorge. The technical aspect of the route is similar to "Try To Be Hip" but the difficult moves are slightly more powerful and more numerous.

Even though the route is adjacent to "Cruel Sister" it remains an independent line to the anchors.