Walking the Devil 5.12
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| Type: | Trad, 45 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.12b [details] |
| FA: | Lee Hansche |
| New Route: | Yes |
| Submitted By: | lee hansche on Jul 5, 2009 |
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BETA PHOTO: Walking the Devil, from below...
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Description Mark Sprague told me about this crack a while back after he put in an anchor above it and tried it a little on TR. Anyway the beta I had in mind took a good bit of cleaning of lichen and loose rocks. Today I went out to give it my first try. I came very close to an onsight on my first go, falling on the #6 cam in the crux. I cleaned the route and sent on my second go.
Basically climb the low off-width roof how ever you can manage (I went upside down but who knows what you might come up with) and continue up the chimney above to the anchor.
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Im not sure on a letter grade but the "boulder problem" crux i felt was v4 or harder so it seemed like 5.12 made sense. I'd love other peoples opinions on the grade so climb it.
Thanks a bunch for telling me about it Mark.
Location On the far left end of triple corners to the right of the fixed rope gully that goes toward the hinterlands.
Protection I used medium cams a #6 camalot.
BETA PHOTO: A side view of Walking the Devil, so you can peep ...
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| Comments on Walking the Devil |
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By M Sprague
Administrator
From: New England
Jul 6, 2009
| Nice going, Lee! I can't help much with the grade. I only tried it once, on TR, and before the loose flakes inside were cleaned out. I wouldn't doubt the grade you propose. I used the flakes some and it still felt pretty hard and I ended up dropping out of the slot. Without the flakes to push off, I would imagine it would be much more strenuous and require interesting technique. I too ended up inverted part of the time.
It is cool that several hard, worthy trad lines have gone in at Rumney recently |
By lee hansche
Administrator
From: goffstown, nh
Jul 6, 2009
| Thanks Mark... i was not able to remove the main chock stone/flake in there which proved to be very helpful for my beta and i decided it was even solid enough to protect with... i did remove a bunch of rock and lichen which changed things a litle... Thanks again for getting me psyched on it!!! |
By lee hansche
Administrator
From: goffstown, nh
Jul 7, 2009
| Just posted a video of the climb...
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By Kevin Macartney
From: Bozeman, MT
Jul 9, 2009
| Lee, I liked the intro you gave to the route with the clip of you climbing inbetween. Congrats on the send! |
By lee hansche
Administrator
From: goffstown, nh
Jul 9, 2009
| thanks much sir!!! |
By twellman
Dec 2, 2009
| Another cool name for this would have been...
Off width your head!
Haha. I saw this in the new guidebook. Nice going, Lee. |
By lee hansche
Administrator
From: goffstown, nh
Dec 2, 2009
| haha yeah not a bad name... naming them is half the fun... the name i gave it had like 3 meanings... it came to me while looking at a picture of my wife walking an evil puppy we referred to as the devil, also i was planning on walking the #6 cam which is a devil of a size, and in the end i walked the route compared to what a devil i thought it would be... so there is the story... anyone who likes OW roofs will like this route... |
By Heims
From: Portland
Oct 30, 2012
| Sooo...way different beta on my part I went left side in fist jam in the flake invert of my left hand then flail a lot. Cam popped out I feel I need a 7 lol almost sent man...comin back for another go soon. But I got the start beta nailed now....great route man! Good meetin ya the other day as well! |
By lee hansche
Administrator
From: goffstown, nh
Oct 31, 2012
| glad you like it!
im surprised the cam didnt stay, my #6 was bomber... glad it sounds like you are ok...
it was indeed nice to run in to you and i look forward to seeing you post about sending this thing :) |
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