Unnamed Bolted Face  

If anyone knows anything about the this climb, let me know and I'll add it.

Thanks,

Jim

So far as the verbal history goes... this is a Henry Barber first ascent. It was originally lead on just 2 RPs (yuck!). Some damn eager beaver named Matt Natti bolted it in 2010, thinking that it was just a TR line. After I discovered the mistake... Henry Barber was contacted and officially said he is against bolting at all, but he unofficially let this incident slide. For any potential "choppers" - please know that the second bolt is in a hollow section of granite, hence the glue-in ring. If this was chopped, it could fracture the outermost layer of the rock, which would probably make an awesome 5.10 into a 5.7... so please leave the crowbars at home.

Does anyone think we could give some of these unnamed climbs names? Perhaps Pink Floyd albums would keep the theme going?

Maybe we could ask Henry Barber for a name, since he is credited with the FA?

Right, so I chatted with Matty, and Barber never named his routes. So out of respect, we'll just have to leave this one. But in the interest of organizing things out here, the routes have been given proper names after Pink Floyd albums...chronologically from left to right.

Such a good route, varied slab at the bottom and thin and techy stemming and crimping at the top to a crescendo "thank God", juggy finish. I think that the bolts should stay and not be chopped, it's such a beautiful lead, and climbing it on TR is fun, but leading it is an amazing experience. It took me a lot of moving up and down just before the crux trying to visualize the sequence before I committed to firing to the top.

I wanna see someone less than 5'7" or so give this a go. I'm 5'10" and feel just barely tall enough to keep this in the 5.10 range for me. A new favorite route for me nonetheless.