Climbing Partner Request 3/10 - 3/12

I will be in RR 3/10 - 3/12 with a climbing partner. Looking to climb 5.6-5.8 (sport and trad) with someone who is familiar with climbing at RR. I'm brining an 80M rope and full rack of gear with double BD cams 0.3-4. 

If your interested in meeting up and climbing, let me know. 
Thx

Jerry

Jerry Heise wrote:

I will be in RR 3/10 - 3/12 with a climbing partner. Looking to climb 5.6-5.8 (sport and trad) with someone who is familiar with climbing at RR. I'm brining an 80M rope and full rack of gear with double BD cams 0.3-4. 

If your interested in meeting up and climbing, let me know. 
Thx

Jerry

Jerry, this is a little confusing. Are you saying you are looking for a third person to climb as a party of three?

Also it is a funny typo that you are brining your rope!

Jerry - sent you a DM

Sorry about the confusion. We was looking for a third person or more. Really interested in someone that has been to RR and climbed there before. Was planning on doing some single pitch routes on the 10th or some easy multi pitch with someone that has been there before. Sounds like I may have a partner on the 12th that is talking about climbing at civilization or Dante’s wall. You’re welcome to join. Armatrom and community pillar sound interesting. I was thinking about starting with something easy like catwalk on celebration wall.
Where are you planning on staying? Just wondering where it’s best to meet up. 

Catwalk on the celebration wall is a very easy, fun, and memorable (to me) climb. It's also a non-trivial approach and descent - not that it's technically challenging, more like the route finding/length. For those seasoned RR climbers who have spent time in the canyons, it's in fact one of the most chill and beautiful days out. If you've never climbed anything in one of the canyons (or don't have a decent amount of desert travel under your belt), I might suggest you pick a route more routinely traveled.  

Great advice,  any suggestions on an 5.6-7 single or multi pitch (sport or trad) to get used to RR. I’ve never climbed there before. I will be getting into RR mid day on the 10th. 

Jerry Heise wrote:

Great advice,  any suggestions on an 5.6-7 single or multi pitch (sport or trad) to get used to RR. I’ve never climbed there before. I will be getting into RR mid day on the 10th. 

Jerry, before you climb on the sandstone, check the WET ROCK thread for what people are saying about local conditions.

There is a lot that might suit you in Willow Springs.  In the Ragged Edges area (very easy to find, short approach), Crooked Crack, Go ahead and Jump, Tonto.  There is a rap tree for all those ontop of Tonto IIRC.

A bit to the right of those, also short approach, easy to find, at Children's Crag, Peaches is a fabulous route.  You can walk climber's right from the top of that to the anchors on the top of Mitten's Revenge, another nice 5.8.

Also, still in Willow Springs, there are a lot of nice climbs in that grade at the N'Plus Ulta area (might be called something else on MP).  About 15 minutes to appraoch, easy to find. Gimp's Arete, Geezer Face, Double Pinitration are all 5.8.  Lucky Charms at 5.7, Senior Moment is 5.5 but has a nice 5.7 variation.  From the ledge atop all those or where the routes end, some have anchors but if not, a 70 gets you down from the anchors atop Sleeper (but an 80 is even better, it's a stretch with the 70).

Awesome great advice!  Much appreciated!

https://www.mountainproject.com/route-finder?selectedIds=105708961&type=rock&diffMinrock=1500&diffMinboulder=20000&diffMinaid=70000&diffMinice=30000&diffMinmixed=50000&diffMaxrock=1900&diffMaxboulder=20050&diffMaxaid=75260&diffMaxice=38500&diffMaxmixed=60000&is_trad_climb=1&stars=3.8&pitches=2&sort1=popularity+desc&sort2=rating

That is filtered for routes between 5.5 and 5.7 that have more than 3 stars and greater than 2 pitches, sorted by popularity and difficulty. It's pretty spot on. There are a ton of routes off the beaten path that are worth climbing and will help you avoid crowds that are lower on the list, but the top 10 on there are popular for a reason. Read the descriptions and you'll find some are much more straightforward approaches/descents (birdland, physical graffiti, cat in the hat) and others have trickier route finding/walk-offs/descents that don't follow the climbing line (johnny vegas, olive oil, tunnel vision).

Again, none of these are particularly hard by desert standards, but I'm sensitive to new desert climbers and assuming that what feels easy to us may be intimidating to others. In any case, all of those mentioned are awesome and classic routes.