The Rookie Party  WI4

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Type:  Ice, Alpine, 1 pitch, 200 feet Consensus:  WI4 [details] FA:  Unknown Season:  Fall/Winter Submitted By:  Leroy on Nov 25, 2006 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

The Rookie Party and Center Chute - November 2, 20...

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Description 

From a belay on the right side, climb up a short low-angle section to the crux, a leftward-ascending traverse. After that, cruise WI3 for the next hundred something feet. If the Center Chute, the couloir up and slightly left of the ice is looking firm, find a line through shattered rock and traverse in. We climbed another 200' up and slightly right from the steep ice until we could make an easy traverse back left into the couloir.

Location 

The climb is at the top of the middle bowl on the north aspect of the Twins - gunner's left of Pipleine, a large couloir that falls from the summit of the West Twin. If continuing up Center Chute, you will top out in the small saddle between the East and West Twins. The easiest descent is to go a couple hundred yards east to the top of the East Twin and descend north down the ridge towards Hidden Peak. This is the ascent route when Snowbird permits skiers to access the Twins through its winter permit area.

Protection 

A rack of screws and maybe a pin or two if you continue higher and keep the rope out. When we climbed it in early November of 2006, it took big screws to full depth. There is and old, two-pin anchor on top of the left side of the flow at about the 200' mark. There was also solid ice right below this anchor for a screw back up and/or abalokov rap anchor.

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Brewer leading The Rookie Party

Front pointing the upper portion of the Center Chu...