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Name that route by description PNW edition (#2)
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And again. This clue comes with a bumper issue of anagrams; two, or maybe three, depending upon how you count them. "This route is where - with due apology to Kate Bush - one might have encountered Ribble and Winkle* 'out' on a winding 'Wolfen Moor', about forty-one years ago!" This might help the thought process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TInGigCwhhc * That's Todd Ribble and Doug Winkle. |
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Is it Moonflower Buttress? I have no idea how to connect it to all of your various clues but there are many named sections including the Prow and the Shaft. The Shaft being the part I thought you were previously referring to? Sorry I’ve come back to this a few times and can’t remember every direction I’ve taken it. |
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Bingo! Good job, Garrett. I'll go through the clues - one at a time as I've just typed for half an hour and everything suddenly irretrievably disappeared! "This route, on a peak which might be nominally linked with Edward Elgar, includes a named feature that shares that name with a variation on a non-PNW Grade VI - which itself was earlier chosen for a significant solo. Appropriate headwear might be a version of 'The San Francisco Hat'!" One of Elgar's more famous works is his 'Enigma Variations', a series of musical portraits of his closest friends. Of these, almost certainly the best known is 'Nimrod' which he composed for his friend August Jaeger. The title is a play on Jaeger's name; Jaeger - or Jäger - is the German for 'hunter', and in the Bible Nimrod was depicted as 'a great hunter'. Voilà the peak. You're correct; The Shaft is a feature on The Moonflower. It's also the name of the major variation by which El Cap's Muir Wall was free-climbed. Robbins earlier soloed that route's second ascent - the first time that an El Cap wall was soloed. If you abbreviate San Francisco in the way that Los Angeles becomes LA and then solve the anagram 'The SF Hat' you get 'The Shaft'. More to follow [will just edit this]. "- 'Re-purposed Comet' may help with the Elgar clue." A modification of a later version of the de Havilland Comet - the first jet airliner - was the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, a maritime patrol aircraft; 're-purposed' in the way that the AWACS plane was a re-purposed Boeing 707. "- One might wonder whether another feature on the route in question was named for the daughter of the climber who made the significant solo of the non-PNW route. [It wasn't.]" Tamara's Traverse on The Moonflower wasn't named after Tamara Robbins! "This route is where - with due apology to Kate Bush - one might have encountered Ribble and Winkle* 'out' on a winding 'Wolfen Moor', about forty-one years ago!" "* That's Todd Ribble and Doug Winkle." FA of the complete route to the summit in 1983 by Todd 'Ribble' Bibler and Doug 'Winkle' Klewin. 'Out' is the anagram hint, and if you unwind 'Wolfen Moor' you get Moonflower! "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TInGigCwhhc" - Nimrod. Over to you! |
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Wow, absolutely fantastic! I appreciate the time and effort you put into that one. I did get the Shaft part but couldn’t figure out a route with that feature. The last anagram is what gave it away! No anagrams in this clue. It was at this locale that I realized that every tree is “on.” Always. Especially at the start of these routes. I once took a brief ground fall trying to avoid pulling on a tree. Anyway, trees are always on, except this route now. The tree that marks that start used to be the standard start but the routes popularity has worn the tree down and the rock start is preferred. |
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Angels Crest? |
Drederekwrote: Yup! |
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Good clue Garret, surprised I remembered that tree start as an option. |
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ROTC? |
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That’s the one, you’re up! |
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This route appears to have been first climbed on September 2nd 1974. The peak that it's on can be found amongst the PNW's less elevated mountain areas. |
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Labour Day Buttress of Labour Day Horn boom!!! |
Dan Booklesswrote: Thank God for that; my last one held out for nearly a week! Excellent. https://www.mountainproject.com/route/119554513/labour-day-buttress-of-labour-day-horn "The peak that it's on can be found amongst the PNW's less elevated mountain areas." All yours, Dan. |
 If you can name this route, then you actually know more than I do, cause I don't know the name of this route... (it had an anchor and we climbed it...) the Correct answer was "that 11- at Bills Columns." Max is up! |
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Looks like Bill’s columns. It’s hard to tell from the photo, but if it is, I might’ve put that one up with Pat. We weren’t really naming routes as much as climbing them for the most part. |
Max Tepferwrote: correct area...what's the rack? ...or at least the grade (ish) You're up Max! |
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If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's 11- ish. Edit to add: there's an excellent 12+ on the right end of that wall with a two bolt start into a fingercrack higher up. Worth checking out! (just left of where the columns get short and weird) |
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Rarely done, this opus center punches an aesthetic feature and is a classic for the connoisseur. It has a short, specific season, a committing and somewhat baffling crux low on the route, and hundreds of feet of excellent, airy climbing above that culminates in an aesthetic summit. Excellent that is, if you can look past a certain alpine grit in terms of rock quality... Edit to add: seems like I'm a little too vague or all the locals who'd know this ones are offline? Let me know if I should post up a hint. |
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Makes me think of Abraxas with it being South facing and the Golden Eagle closure, poor rock, but I don’t think it fits all of your criteria. |
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You’re super close! Say the word if you want a hint. |
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Alpen Symphony? |
