Outer Limits 5.10c
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| Type: | Trad, 2 pitches, 190 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.10b/c [details] |
| FA: | Jim Bridwell and Jim Orey, 1971. |
| Submitted By: | Blitzo on Oct 16, 2006 |
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Angela on Outer limits
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Description This climbs the Beautiful crack to the right of "Elevator Shaft", for two pitches. Traverse right at the top of the second pitch.
People usally do the first pitch then rappel.
A true Yosemite Classic!
Protection Pro to 3.5"
Grant Hiskes on "Outer Limits".
Photo by Blitzo.
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Grant Hiskes on "Outer Limits".
Photo by Blitzo.
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Pitch 1 of Outer Limits.
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Robby Balls walking the 1st pitch. Photo: Kevin Um...
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DK leading Outer Limits
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Outer Limits a long time ago
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By caughtinside
From: Oakland CA
Jun 6, 2007
| It's to the left of elevator shaft if you're facing the rock. |
By Ian G.
From: PDX, OR
Apr 24, 2009
rating: 5.10+
| Geez...I took three #3's up this and wish I had brought two more :0 |
By Colin Simon
From: Boulder, CO
Aug 28, 2009
| This climb makes my balls drop!
AWESOME! |
By Dynomight510
Sep 11, 2009
rating: 5.10c
| Steep, sustained and powerful. Thankfully its hand size. Solid for the grade. |
By Osprey
From: ...
Dec 15, 2009
| Run laps on pitch one with a single 70m rope, or a single 60m rope if the belay is bumped up to the base of the Elevator Shaft. |
By chuck claude
From: Flagstaff, Az
Jan 14, 2010
| its a great climb. Doing the 2nd pitch going to the left is also very good. |
By tallmark515
From: San Francisco
Mar 12, 2010
| P1 is an instant classic, bring three hand size pieces, if you're really scratching for gear, you can probably squeeze in a few fist sized pieces too. P1 seems about .10a, didn't do p2. |
By George K. Watson
From: Nederland, CO
Jul 10, 2010
| Beautiful route. If there is a crux, it's low down at a little pod area and then the thing keeps going and going and going at hand size. A fistful of hand size cams enables you to pro this superbly. |
By Ken Trout
From: Golden, CO
Jan 31, 2011
| In the Sierra Club's mountaineering journal, Ascent, 1973, Jim Bridwell proposed the use of letter grades in The Innocent, The Ignorant, And The Insecure.
His examples for 5.10c thin cracks were Outer Limits (p2), Lunatic Fringe, Hardly Pinnacle, High Quality, Slack Center, English Breakfast, Sacherer-Fredricks, Hot Line (p1 & p2), and Mental Block (P1).
Pitch one of Outer Limits made the example list for 5.10b thin cracks, along with Gripper, Anathema, Easy Streaks, and New Dimensions (P1). |
By claramie
From: Boulder, CO
Jun 10, 2011
| wow. I mean, really... WOW! That is one awesome climb! Great hands for sooo long. Awesome and absolutely bombproof gear. You could take a piece or two that is between #2 and #3 camalot for the hands section as some of the #3s were pretty tight. However you protect it, enjoy some sick, bomber jamming! |
By Aerili
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Sep 13, 2011
| I found the "perfect 10a hands" up higher on p1 to be the crux: insecure off-hands for a looong ways in my case! The shorter, 10b crux down lower allowed tight hands and was easier to get through.
You get rests on this route, but many of them are what I would call "active rests"! |
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