Type: | Trad, 450 ft (136 m), 5 pitches, Grade III |
FA: | FA Sam Boyce, Mark Bowling June 2016; FFA Aaron Livingston, Wade Plafcan Oct 2016 |
Page Views: | 1,515 total · 16/month |
Shared By: | Sam Boyce on Jun 30, 2016 |
Admins: | slim, Andrew Gram, Nathan Fisher, Perin Blanchard, GRK, D C |
RAPTOR CLOSURES: please be aware of seasonal raptor closures. They occur annually in the spring.
Description
Varied and fun climbing. There are some zones of choss navigation.
P1 5.9 170ft Start up the twin hand cracks, climb up the corner through a number of small roofs, eventually reaching a short easy chimney leading to a huge ledge on the left. Good belay in a tips to off-fingers horizontal up and to the left.
P2 5.11- 110’ Some easy slab avoids some squeeze chimney weirdness, straight up an easy chimney to the base of a wide #6 splitter. Strenuous and steep wide crack (5.10 A0 or 5.11-) leads to a good fist crack/layback to a small alcove below a giant roof.
P3 5.10 30’ Short pitch, possible to link with P2 pending rope drag. Up the stem box with a .75 crack to protect and assist to the underside of the roof. Height dependent stem out and pull out of the roof. Fun!
P4 5.10 100’ The roof pitch. Up an easy hand crack to a small roof, stem to assist. Easy and splitter hand crack leads to the base of an intimidating roof. Easier than it looks, and with good gear. A couple rotten bands follow and you end up on a huge ledge. Boulder belay possible.
P5 5.8 50’ Short pitch to the summit, straight uphill a bit there is an obvious #4 crack with a roof/traverse. Climb the easy crack and traverse left to mantle, tree belay super far back from the ledge.
Descent: From the top out, scramble south (towards castleton) to the high point, scramble down to the rim when possible and find a huge cairn (50-100 yrds from high point). Descent to the ledge right below the cairn, the first station for choir boyz will be obvious, Easy single rope rappels straight down.
2 Comments