Name that Route Volume X
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Kinda looks like the Hulk in the back. Are you on the Incredulous Bulk? |
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Not the Hulk |
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Jabroni McChufferson wrote: You got it! |
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Coffin Nail |
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Northeast Face of Pingora |
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Four Course Meal at Cochise Stronghold |
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Flexwrote: You’re up. I believe this is actually a last pitch “variation” called the sneezes of 10,000 butterflies, even though I’ve never talked to anyone who hasn’t finished it this way. |
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Yeah when you’re at that belay and look up at that splitter I don’t know why you would go any other way. Here’s the next one: |
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Price Glacier? Conditions are always changing on such routes. |
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Not Price Glacier, not in North America. Obviously glacial conditions change pretty drastically. This photo is from over 20 years ago so it may not look like this anymore but it’s a distinctive section of this classic route.
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Wow I didn’t mean to derail the thread. This route is on the highest peak of its range which is in the birthplace of alpinism. |
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Peuterey Ridge |
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Not Peuterey Ridge but it is on the Italian side of Mont Blanc |
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I don’t know if this is the first time a route couldn’t be identified but I’m sorry for throwing up such a bugaboo. I honestly thought it would go quickly after posting that second photo. The route in question is the Brenva Spur. Here’s a different one from closer to home. Bonus points if you can identify the climber. |
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Prodigal Sun? Beckey? |
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You got it Jon. That’s Fred leading the first pitch in 2006. He raced up it so fast I could hardly feed the rope out fast enough! |
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Upside the Cranium? |











