BETA PHOTO: Northern wall of the Railroad Amphitheater
Description
Cop-Out starts about half-way between Snedegar's Nose and The Pillar. Climb up the slightly overhanging wall on finger cracks until you reach the inside corner under the mid-size roof. Once under the roof step out of the corner and onto the face to your right. Use vertical cracks to ascend to the top.
I'd say the description is way off. Not really finger cracks. More like this
"Start with some good side pulls and layback positions. Continue with those movements. Make a powerful move to a great jug about 25ft up. Move up a bit and take a nice no hands rest. Move towards the roof and ascend the small dihedral to get under the main roof. Move out right and use jugs and good crimps to ascend to top. (there might be one hold in that vertical crack, it is a really tight seam.)"
That being said....This is the best climb I have done at Devil's Lake. 5 stars!!
By Paul Campbell From: Menomonee Falls, WI Jul 9, 2009 rating: 5.11a
It does have finger crack action through the dihedral. Bottom section to the big flake was all laybacks for me. Is the big flake and the good pocket above the flake the first gear?
The first gear was in the flaring-ness about 12 feet off the deck, Met #6 if I recall correctly.
By Chris treggE Administrator From: Madison, WI Jul 9, 2009 rating: 5.11a
Unlikely but bomber medium nut about 7-8 feet off the ground in a constriction. I didn't really see the great placement until I was at it and the nut sort of slid in almost horizontally straight in. Then the flaring area up and right 12 feet up, I think I put a #3 or #4 BD camalot. Then one more a bit tricky piece in the thin crack before the crux, then it's pretty much over, as I recall. I was only on it once. Super fun. I did both this and Catenary the same night with SteveZ and I thought they were of comparable difficulty.
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