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Unknown by many people the land starting at LDS Church vaults up to and including the Gate Buttress is owned by the LDS Church. This includes, the Fin, Thumb, Green A, Schoolroom, and Gate Buttress. Over the past 40 years there have been several closures of this property to climbing.
Currently, climbers are welcome visitors because in part of Utah's Land Owner Liability Law and the work of local climbers to preserve access.
In 1998 through 2000 this area was quaried and is presently under revegetation. The trail goes through part of this area. Please stay on the climber's trail so this area can recover.
BETA PHOTO: the yellow line shows the path taken from the base...
Description
This interesting variation begins on the Schoolroom Direct crack (5.7 R) then joins the Schoolroom's second pitch (5.6). Rather than exiting right onto the face toward the second belay, however, continue up the corner, past dark, streaked rock and undercling/lieback leftward out the roof above. Belay in the vegetated gully using wires or small cams. From the belay, traverse left on good edges to gain a thin crack; easy, crack-protected slab climbing leads to a short crux below an obvious roof. Undercling/jam the handcrack as it trends right out the overlap, latch the finishing jug, then rejoin the original Schoolroom just below the prominent Schoolroom Roof. Traverse left to finish at the tree or link it to the airy, A0 roof above. A great deal of gardening was required to establish this line; with a bit more traffic, this variation might provide a more direct alternative, especially if there are parties in line for Schoolroom.
Protection
A standard rack, with doubles in cams from tips to fingers.
Well, I've been climbing up there since I was a kid and I've never heard of or seen anyone on that route. You must've done some work. In old photos that was quite the jungle line. Great job Shingo. Another nice Schoolroom option.
ten bucks says this has been done back in the day. Come on you "old timers" you know you've sent this in the Chuck Taylors. I'm talking to you Smoot Brothers, Kim Miller, Tyler Phillips, James Garrett, Doug Heinrich, Luke Douglas, Dennis Turnville, Jansen Gunderson, Mark Bennett, Nate Brown, George Lowe, Richard Green, Greg Lowe, Guate Garcia, and don't forget Tony Calderone.
hey, everyone! thanks for clearing that up; i thought it too obvious to escape the keen eyes of those who have been around and know the canyons much better than i... i've edited its FA status, but does anyone know what this variation is called? whodunnit and when? shingo
To my knowledge, that variation didn't have a name. Back in the 70's, climbers didn't name, date or record variations , unless they offered really good climbing. The early guidebooks just gave them numbers 3.1, 3.2 and so on. Naming everything wasn't as common as it now is.
The Playing Hooky variation sounds good to me. Thanks for posting up.
Schoolroom Area
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