The Legendary "F" Bomb 

This route is really cool with awesome moves and awesome gear in deep pockets. You all should do it now while its dry and before it gets too hot. It seeps when the water table is high like most of this past winter.

Well that's a nice Xmas gift! I'm a bit rusty and the R was keeping off.

Thanks Nate.

for reference, it rained pretty heavily saturday night and friday morning but this thing was completely dry by early afternoon on saturday like nearly all grooves on the wall. (The overall cumulative rainfall in the past several months seems to be somewhat low).

Still no second ascent that I know of... I even added 3 bolts after a would-be 2nd ascent party declared it too runout.

You can always go back to take the additional bolts out if you feel that they were placed for the wrong reasons.

It is an amazing route, put up by 2 highly skilled climbers and deserves to be repeated.

Looks fuckin' sweet. Don't add any more bolts - I'll do it someday ;)

Tim, Those bolts weren't added for the wrong reasons at all. We should have placed them to start with.

Ryan, You'll definitely dig this line!

The bottom line is that Andrew and I received a scathing email from the party who bailed from the route due to some runouts. I agreed to add a few bolts because I thought that was the right thing to do to make it safe and worth repeating, and now you're calling me lame. Wow, things have really changed in this state! If you've got something you wanna to say, then please just send me a PM and keep this site clutter free. Jeez...

Can't wait to come do this route later this year, looks stellar.

This should help clarify some of the previous comments. After hearing all the great reviews from the FA party boasting about great gear and amazing holds, I led the 5.11 crux pitch with Tim Synder (Gneiss Pirate) with no falls. I didn't climb it as a continuous pitch though. Just below the last bolt, I fiddled with a worthless stopper and down-climbed back to a no-hands stance to built a natural gear belay. Finishing the rest of that pitch felt much better without the weight of 120' of rope scraping across the bulge. While attempting the 2nd pitch, I climbed an unprotected section of 5.8+ left of the groove, to what looked like a very sketchy maybe 9ish move that if I botched would land me directly on my belayer from 15' above. Neither Tim nor I was happy with that thought. I reversed the moves back to the belay and we bailed. That evening I emailed Nathan and Andrew essentially asking that they consider either adding an R rating (not originally given) or adding some bolts. Without either of these, even a seasoned NC climber could get really banged up or perhaps seriously injured attempting this route. I haven't been back on it since the bolts were added, but I'm sure it's way more enjoyable with the additional protection, yet still full bore groove climbing. Thanks for listening Nathan.