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Elevation: 10,900 ft 3,322 m
GPS: 36.59464, -118.24533
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Shared By: Richard Shore on May 19, 2014
Admins: Aron Quiter, Euan Cameron, Mike Morley, Adam Stackhouse, Salamanizer Ski, Justin Johnsen, Vicki Schwantes

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The Wrinkled Lady is a 500' tall pyramid-shaped wall, rife with geometric dihedrals; taking pride of place at the highest point on the ridgeline above the north side of the Whitney Portal area. This formation can be seen up (wayyyy up) and left of the Whitney Portal Buttress. First climbed by none other than Fred Beckey back in the late 60's/early 70's - his route follows the prominent dihedral system with large roofs shooting straight up the center of the wall (5.8 A3). The difficult and lengthy approach all but left this formation in the realm of true obscurity. More recently though, an increasingly popular moderate free-solo route, Ummagumma III-IV 5.7 A0 or 5.9, was recently established and tackles the prominent dihedral ~200' left of Fred's route. Ummagumma has been described as the "Royal Arches of the Portal."

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Climb the first 2,000' of Ummagumma (5.7 A0 or 5.9), or figure out something else which will likely be hours of steep scree-scrambling, bush-whacking, leave-you-cryin'-for-mama type of terrain.

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5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b A0
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Ummagumma
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Ummagumma
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5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b A0 Trad, Aid
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