What's your 'comfort climb'?

Todd Berlier wrote:

mine use to both be in BCC in Utah:

the wave wall traverse let me know i was ready strength wise and soloing steorts ridge let me know my head was in the right place.

BCC for me is the Outside Corner, LCC would be Pentapitch. Around here its just the circuit of easy one pitch cruises on the sweet granite.

Romping up the second flatiron

Aaron and Nick got it.

Yosemite welcome ritual: Snagging one of the good parking spots at Church Bowl pre-dawn. Run a quick lap up Bishop’s Terrace to meet up with the sunrise. Back to the picnic tables to sort gear and drink more coffee while watching the valley fill with light. Doesn’t suck mannnn

Revelation Route in Devils Head, West Fins in arches (though doesn’t really count as a climb per se). Officer Friendly at Wall of Justice. Over the Top at Fiscal Cliff back when I was climbing around tunnel 5 a lot. Lover’s Leap in Morrison for taking folks up their first trad multis

For Boulders probably Rite of the Devil at the Dark Side and Rescue, Marry Ann, and Flint Lock at Three Sisters

P Degnerwrote:

Romping up the second flatiron

Hard to beat that! Hell, 'east face Flatiron scrambles' as a general category. Somehow, despite living in CO for a few years, I only did my first flatiron scramble last month, but it's now become a weekly addiction. They're such a nice middle ground between a hike and a long multipitch on days when you're not psyched enough to climb but a hike feels too pedestrian.

I've got one from a local crag in the midwest 

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/105826937/number-6-aka-the-bulge

Nice scenery, close to home, pretty fun movement, I've climbed this pitch more than anything else by far.

W. Buttress and Hair City on the Bastille

I typically avoid repeating routes but whenever I'm in Red Rock with a person who has never been there, I like to start on a combo of Birdland 5 pitches followed by Dark Shadows 5 pitches.  Midweek of course. You can do that with a light rack and 1 70 meter rope for the raps, and the climbing is really great.  I don't get tired of it.

Arrow at the gunks. I think I've climbed it 25 times. 

The Trifecta (mummy, daddy, and the prow) in the Linville Gorge. They are easy but I will never get tired of them. 

Also Straight and Narrow over on shortoff. Some of the best 10a trad climbing i’ve done 

The Trifecta (mummy, daddy, and the prow) in the Linville Gorge. They are easy but I will never get tired of them.

Nothing to get tired about those!  

Great question! For me its the local classic, Apes of Wrath. It's a banger route that you can easily link into 1 pitch with a 70. It has stellar movement and is a perfect warm up for crimpy projects. 

Many! I love comfort climbs and will repeat them ad nauseam. Have done all of the following numerous times, each.

Lovers Leap: Haystack, Bears Reach, The Line, Corrugation Corner, Surrealistic Pillar - over and over. And perhaps my favorite (mid-week only), a Leap Grade V Day - do all of those mentioned routes in a day. We did that several times including one time I added in a solo of Pop Bottle to retrieve my helmet from the summit, haha. 

The Meadows:

Daff - West Crack. Fairview - Regular. State Pleasure - South Crack, maybe West Country, Cathedral Peak, West Ridge of Conness

The Valley:

Bishops Terrace, Absolutely Free, Little John, Moby Dick, East Butt Middle Cathedral, all the easy routes at upper Cascade Creek, After 6, Nutcracker, Braille Book, Arrowhead Arete, Keystone Corner, Jam Crack, Sons of Yesterday (which is perhaps my favorite comfort climb save for the 3 approach pitches on Serenity, which are great too but not comfort climbing for me), Y Crack, Sherries Crack, Nob Job.

Farther afield, the route names begin to escape me, have to look them up, anymore.

The stage boulder and other surroundings boulders in castlewood canyon always brings back fond memories.  And definitely toughens the skin up. 

Todd Berlier wrote:

funny enough as many times as i had done steorts (more than 15 and less than 30?) i never did outside corner.

about a month b4 the naked soloist kid back east (sorry cant remember his name) died, he found me on reddit and asked about soloing steorts.

Go figure, I may have done Steorts once but have no memories of it! 

Lower Slots left and right at the Nautilus in the Voo

Great topic:  Depends a little on the years and where I was living.  Eastern Idaho in the 70’s was the Exum Ridge and Irene’s Arete.  Late 70’s, early 80’s living in Boulder, it was Wind Ridge, Calypso and Bastille Crack for laps.  Utah in the 90’s was The Dead Snag Tour (start and ending with Steorts) and Cresent Crack over and over.  Loved the contrast of Quartzite and Granite.  The last 15 years with a home in CIty of Rocks/Castle Rocks its been a steady diet of Zinger (actually Fruit Pie/Zinger) in Castle Rocks, and for City, the East Side of Window Rock and all of the East side of Bath Rock.  Things go downhill in difficulty every year as I age, but I’ll still have plenty of ‘comfort’ climbs left.  This movement and meditation keeps a soul so happy.

Spencer Conewrote:

Great question! For me its the local classic, Apes of Wrath. It's a banger route that you can easily link into 1 pitch with a 70. It has stellar movement and is a perfect warm up for crimpy projects. 

That line is so slayer. By far one of the most fun 5.10's in the 81301. With what I consider to be the most fun 5.10 immediately to the right of it.

Multiplication gully and high E. Ice and rock, always feel amazing on both