Sting   5.8+

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Type:  Trad, 1 pitch, 120 feet Consensus:  5.8+ [details] FA:  Tommy Taylor and Graham Wilson Submitted By:  Steibs on Dec 13, 2012 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

Mountaineer up ledges covered in prickers to a dihedral crack. Understand the name now? Stem up to a large hanging flake. Move left under the flake and then climb its left side. Listen closely, there may be an animal (bird? squirrel? otter?) crying at you from within. Belay at the top of the flake or continue if you've extended wisely. Climb up on big holds, avoiding the prickers sprouting from the crack, until you've pulled yourself left onto a cramped ledge underneath the large roof. Move left across the chasm to another larger ledge with an old piton. You can lay down on this one and think about life. Place pro in the roof crack, stand up, and pull roof (exciting!) to continue to the top. Originally rated 5.6 according the DCA. Sling a tree, bring your partner up and descend via the 3rd/4th class gully by the Meathooks Wall. It's an easy one rope rap and a good end to an adventure.

Location 

Sting is the big, deep dihedral climbers right of the Meathooks and Memory Wall and before the Ampitheatre. The start is several feet right of where the regular trail and the Meathooks Wall trail converge.

Protection 

Gardening shears and double ropes would be nice. If not, judicious use of long runners down low will save you from a world of drag above. You could use a #4 Camalot on the upper roof. Be careful not to kick it out as you pull the roof! Otherwise, standard rack.