West Slabs Info

Everyone keeps talking about beginners, but I don't think you are right.

Beginners don't do the west slabs. They do dogwood (best crag in the Wasatch), slips, challenge buttress, etc. Fledgling trad climbers might, but they are a different breed and have usually done some LCC right of passage down climbing and bush wacking.

The bolts are for the guides taking beginners. (That period was supposed to be in CAPS).

i am all verklempt...

In case anyone else is looking for good descent beta - the east gully that a couple people mentioned is definitely the way to go. Head left after topping out and make a couple semi-exposed moves down to a gully. From there it's about 35 minutes of scrambling and downclimbing with zero bushwhacking.

PS - awesome route. Everyone is right, I couldn't imagine roping up for it. Anyone know the record for doing it, car to car?

Austin Baird wrote: PS - awesome route. Everyone is right, I couldn't imagine roping up for it.

Nice work.

Austin Baird wrote:Anyone know the record for doing it, car to car?

I recall hearing something fairly silly for a faster time, like, under an hour or some such.

I know some of the uber fast guys do laps on it. Be curious what Jared's car-to-car time is. He probably doesn't do it from a car, though, but his parent's house near Millcreek.

Hey Austin, did you count anchor stations on your way up?

I saw several slung trees (with way too much webbing) and 1 bolted station (about 30 feet from the bottom), but that was it. I started about 30 feet right of the first bolts though and didn't really cut left at all, so I probably missed anything else that may have been there.

Austin Baird wrote:In case anyone else is looking for good descent beta - the east gully that a couple people mentioned is definitely the way to go. Head left after topping out and make a couple semi-exposed moves down to a gully. From there it's about 35 minutes of scrambling and downclimbing with zero bushwhacking. PS - awesome route. Everyone is right, I couldn't imagine roping up for it. Anyone know the record for doing it, car to car?

Good to know my memory isn't totally blitzoed...where are my car keys?