Worst Pitch of Climbing Anywhere?
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I’ve enjoyed subscribing to the thread discussing what the best single pitch of climbing anywhere is. This naturally raises the question: What is the most heinous single pitch of climbing anywhere? hit me with your best… What’s the worst pitch you’ve ever had the misfortune of experiencing? |
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Windy Corner, Seneca rocks. Kinda shit pro and an obligatory lip pull on a rocking microwave sized block. |
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5.10 free variation first pitch Zenyatta Entrada |
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The Bastille Crack. Recreate this experience by smearing butter all over your hands and feet and climbing any other generic handcrack. |
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Rumney has about 200 routes that were put up by Bradley White after he stopped climbing hard. They are all obscure mostly under 5.6 . They are low angle rock covered in lichen and pine needles with little pro, usually R rated. They don’t have anchors. Most of them don’t have trails to the bases. I’ve tried to find some of them and they’re completely unrecognizable as rock climbs . I believe most of them never got a second ascent. However, I couldn’t tell you which one of them is the worst. |
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Worst single pitch of climbing ever? Probably that pitch I climbed that I didn’t send at the red that pissed me off. |
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The 2nd pitch of this was pretty terrible: |
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I climbed this garbage route a little ways up Scheelite Canyon. Crumbly holds, loose rock perched on ledges, bad pro. I think I slung a bush at one point. 150' of 5.7 that took me like an hour to lead. At the anchor I nearly accidentally trundled a block that must have weighed hundreds of pounds, 4x3x2 feet or so. ended up clearing the area, trundling the block, and vowing never to climb there again lol |
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For the amount that it gets climbed, any pitch in the north chimney on longs. |
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I’ll nominate Dirt Shower in Boulder Canyon. Might not be the worst ever, but it’s pretty terrible! |
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Whichever one your rope breaks on? |
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Some of Alaska’s more questionable rock has made me reconsider my risk tolerance haa |
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The easy routes on the right side of riverside quarry are pretty horrendous. Maybe his second worse drill jobs. They look terrible, and climb worse. |
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On my first Millbrook experience, we overshot the ledge we were aiming for and ended up in the band of shit rock at the base of the wall. I had to lead a horrendous pitch of 5.5 on dirty stacked blocks to get us back to the ledge. There was perhaps one decent piece of pro. This was probably the worst and scariest pitch I’ve experienced, with the exception of some of the traverse pitches on the backside of Mt Torment. |
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Anything on the Seward Highway outside of Anchorage Alaska. Once voted the worst crag in America in Climbing Magazine. |
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This thread is pointless without pictures |
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Most no star climbs at Pinnacles are probably worse than a lot of what's been mentioned here. Hell, a lot of what's described here would probably be considered classic adventure routes in Pinns. I fucking love Pinnacles, but there are a huge quantity of routes there that most people would think are "the worst single pitch of climbing ever" were they to do them. After several years of climbing the well traveled classics there I was convinced everyone was enormously hyperbolic in their descriptions of how chossy that place is, then I started adventuring out onto some of the less traveled more adventure-y stuff... And it's so much worse than what people say even, or at least it can be. Pinnacles is an amazing place that isn't nearly so bad as its reputation if you climb the same 5-10% of routes in the park that almost everyone climbs. Everyone should climb in that stunning, unique, adventurous place. But be prepared to be astounded as to what the Pinn-heads think a good time and acceptable rock quality is if you get off the beaten path on a no star climb. Those climbs are amazing adventures, but they're pretty terrible routes. |
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If you know, you know. |
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Salamanizer Skiwrote: Thread title says, “Worst Pitch of Climbing Anywhere.” Not “least photogenic pitch.” I’ll be honest though, I do read the mountain project forums for the pictures as well. All these words just don’t make sense to me. |






