Easiest Ground-up, hand drilled route?
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Title asks the question. What’s the easiest route done in this style? Not trying to ruffle M-Cat's fur or anything, but oh what a collection it must be. This does not have to be OF ALL TIME, just the ones in your neck of the woods... you would let even your sibling climb. : - ) Case in point: Aoxomoxoa |
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If you allow power drilling I put up a 50m 5.6 last weekend all drilled from stances. Not too many folks rocking the hand drills these days. I own one and have used it but putting up an entire route hand drilling in quartzite sounds like a special kind of Sisyphean hell to me. Costanoan in Pinnacles is 4 pitches of glorious 5.4 climbing. Pretty sure that's all hand drilled on lead out there. |
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Good point Ricky. Hand drilled where applicable, power drill anywhere else. |
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Are these supposed to me bolted routes or just bolted anchors? I have been on and put up several multi pitch 5.6-5.9 alpine trad lines with hand dripped ground up anchors. |
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FA of pitch 2 of Noob Generations, 5.7 PG, 400 ft of continuous 5.5 with a few 5.7 cruxes, perfect rock, Noob Dome, secret spot, San Diego backcountry The Noob Dimensions corner is visible in the upper left, 5.4 all gear, 400 ft. |
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ryan climbs sometimes wrote: It's a mix but mostly done ground up. The easiest ones are all ground up I think. Honestly the 5.5 there is easier than the 5.4 at Pinnacles thinking about it, so that's probably the best answer so far for this thread. |
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Half Dome cables route - George Anderson, 1875. |
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ryan climbs sometimes wrote: Sort of like certain gyms with their “5.10s”. |
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Don Frijoles wrote: That's because it's hella polished, you can just walk down it in sticky rubber if you're outside the cables (skier's right). Might be an overlap or two that would be tricky 4th though (assuming there were no cables and you were climbing up). Of course "Sierra 4th class" includes many routes that are way the heck harder than 5.0... |
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PWZ wrote: Ha, looks like the final pitch on some many of the Whitehorse Ledge routes. : - ) ) |
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Strong contender and 2 pitches of glory! https://www.mountainproject.com/route/105888037/clip-a-dee-doo-dah |
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Quoted from the MP description of Carpet Slabber, 5.4
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