Tourist Trap  WI4+ M5

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Type:  Mixed, Ice, 1 pitch, 80 feet Consensus:  WI4-5 M5 [details] FA:  Submitted By:  Jesse Morehouse on Jun 5, 2008 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (7) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Brian leading his way up Tourist Trap. Very thank...

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Yield to mining vehicle traffic MORE INFO >>> Revenue and Camp Bird Mines have resumed mining activities further up Camp Bird Rd. A new sign posted in February 2013 caused some tension as described in: www.watchnewspapers.com/view/full_story/21840965/article-Ten>>> Please refrain from blocking the road, yield to oncoming mining vehicle traffic, and be careful of rockfall and icefall. Please share the road to minimize future access issues with the road's multiple user groups. This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund, and Mountain Project. You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment

Description 

Climb the ice in the dihedral immediately right of Slip Slidin' Away up to the big roof and the end of the ice. Traverse out right along a horizontal with fixed pins to a fixed pin anchor.

We rapped from here, but in cooler years it looks like you can add another pitch?

A decent route worth doing if you are in the area.

Location 

Up the Camp Bird rd from Choppo's in the same gully as Slip Slidin' Away.

Protection 

Screws for the ice, a cam or two to supplement the pins towards the end (optional). Doubles and a few long slings helpful to minimize rope drag.

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Betty Thorson on Tourist Trap. To the left is Slip...	Betty Thorson at the end of the ice on Tourist Tra...	Jim Black making the final moves on Tourist Trap.
Tourist Trap, Winter 2007.	Griz starting off.