Drop your favorite 5.10 pitch in the state

ryan climbs sometimes wrote:

Rawhide while you’re there. 

This here website we're on calls Rawhide 11a. The Brad Young guide for Sonora Pass does call it 10d though.

Natalie Blackburnwrote:

This here website we're on calls Rawhide 11a. The Brad Young guide for Sonora Pass does call it 10d though.

10c

Pitch 6, Positive Vibrations is in the running for my all time favorite pitch. 

M Lwrote:

10c

Great job keep posting 

The layback on the Good Book is pretty danged awesome.

While I'm at it, Little Wing is another valley classic 5.10 route; burly 10d. I don't think it sees a lot of action these days but I could be wrong.

P2 of SW face of Liberty Cap is splitter 10c tight hands. Insane view of Nevada Falls.

Salathe Headwall if you have really small hands. 

X Cwrote:

Figures on a Landscape. Joshua Tree. Super fun and a cool position. 

Finally.  Add Run for Your Life, the first pitch of Thin Ice, second pitch of Sundance, Airy Interlude, Love Potion No. 9.  Someone already mentioned Oz and the Good Book.  Ciebola is pretty awesome too.

Dike route in castle crags

almostradwrote:

I can’t think of a single non granite pitch that I’d give 5 stars haha.
some of our coveted mud has some good pitches, but I’ve found the quality in the 11+ and up range.
min sure there’s some good nor cal limestone 10’s? Haven’t gotten to sample much though 

There's a 10b off fingers crack on quartzite that everyone who has climbed it seems to think is 4 out of 4 stars. Message me for deets if interested. 

P.s. rawhide is 5.11, to this punter at least 

The power of eating at Owl Tor has to be in the running, especially if you like face climbs.

I'll add some variety, something that is not a crack - El grande on Chiquito Dome. 50 meters of sustained climbing on flawless granite

In that same vein, Baffin Island at Burst Rock up 108 has a bunch of 5.10 sport routes on stellar granite that are some of the best granite sport climbing you'll find anywhere at any grade. The approach is pretty long, but it is so, so worth it. It's impossible to pick one route there as the best, just climb them all, they're all spectacular.