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Rocket Science 

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FA: Unknown
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.8 [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 50 feet
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Submitted By: Ryan Brough on May 5, 2006


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Description 

Easy climbing to the first bolt. Get ready for some great exposure on the way to the second bolt. Try to stay out of the dike on the right and learn to trust your scientific judgment of friction coefficients. Come on, climbing isn't rocket science!


Location 

100 feet to the left of Pocket Rocket.


Protection 

4 bolts lead to 2 chains. Bring QDs and a helmet.



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By Ben T
May 6, 2006
rating: 5.8

Easy first clip. Directly between the first and third bolts is all friction and smearing. This is a place you will really learn to trust your shoes. Good idea to bring a helmet, runners for top rope, and spiderman.

By edwin
May 8, 2006

Best to make the easy clip and then climb from the low arete. Bolt #2 is strangely far left... looked like old holes closer to the corner. You will find new trust in your shoes between 1st and 3rd bolts if you're leading, and theres a nut placement to help with that.

By James Garrett
Jun 23, 2006

Of the two routes on the Rocket, if this is the one to the right or "south"...with one glue in bolt about half way up, I am happy to hear people are enjoying this fun pitch. I also installed the chain at top, and it was intended to combine this with a rap from the huge single glue in, maybe one can avoid lugging up two ropes for this approach and easy top roping? I first climbed it probably 6 years ago or so...can't remember the name, but I noticed that the FA info was unknown so I'm passing on some history, we called it Ridin' The Rocket and this was the route on the right with a big Glu-in bolt about midway? ...I like the name, though it is kind of overused...a Pocket Rocket route exists in Cedar City domes...Pocket Rocks, City of the Rocks, Castle Cragss in California, and I think even at Index in WA, but as long as I am so forgetful as to remember what we called it...go for it...maybe every area needs a Pocket Rocket!
James