West Chimney 5.6
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| Type: | Trad, 1 pitch, 150 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.6 [details] |
| FA: | Jerry Gallwas, Barbara Lilley, and others, Mar. 1953 |
| Submitted By: | Roger Linfield on Jul 5, 2006 |
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BETA PHOTO: "West Chimney".
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Description Climb a shallow squeeze chimney (crux) up to a large ledge at the base of the main chimney. Climb this large chimney (4th class) to the top.
Location The upper two thirds of this route is a very obvious chimney that splits the west face of the rock.
Protection light rack
By Darshan Ahluwalia
From: Petaluma, CA
Nov 20, 2006
| first thirty feet are kind of hard if you don't know how to chimney. easy, but not recommended for beginners due to the required technical chimneying and offwidth... even at 5.6 chimney/offwidth can be made hard. |
By Charles I.
From: Boulder, CO
Nov 5, 2007
| Just did this awesome route for the first time. This is defintely one of my favorite lines up IR. |
By juggy
From: Denver, CO
Apr 30, 2010
| best way to come down when soloing |
By Russ Walling
From: www.FishProducts.com
May 1, 2010
| I've found the Upper Right Ski Track to be an easier downclimb for a post solo descent. It does look hard and reeks of certain death, but it ain't. Granted, the hard part of the West Chimney is at the bottom, so the potential fall that a downclimber might take will be much more survivable than the absolute death one would get from pitching out of the Upper Right Ski Track at any point. YMMV. |
By Randy
May 1, 2010
| As Russ said |
By Fat Dad
From: Los Angeles, CA
Mar 7, 2012
| I always found the SE Corner to be the mellowest downclimb (although I haven't checked this out). |
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