Rock Bottom
5.11d YDS 7a French 24 Ewbanks VIII UIAA 25 ZA E5 6a British
| Type: | Trad, 200 ft (61 m), 2 pitches |
| GPS: | 37.74268, -119.60709 |
| FA: | Kevin Worrall and George Meyers (1974) |
| Page Views: | 1,120 total · 9/month |
| Shared By: | Bryan G on May 24, 2016 |
| Admins: | Mike Morley, Adam Stackhouse, Salamanizer Ski, Justin Johnsen, Vicki Schwantes |
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Description
Located about 100ft uphill to the right of Doggie Deviations. Start at the thin flake and crack. Looks sort of like Crack-a-GoGo, but much harder.
The crux is about 10ft up and involves a big move to a small finger jam. This would be a much more reasonable lead if there were a couple fixed KB's at the start. As it stands, it's pretty sketchy making such an improbable move with marginal wires protecting against a ground-fall.
After the crux move is a bit more 5.11 fingerlocking in pin scars and bad feet. Then climb up and left to a beautiful hand crack splitter (Bottom Line 10d, takes the groove further left). A 5.10d finger crack bulge with a piton is the last difficult section, then more handjams in a corner lead to a ledge. Be careful as you climb past some perched blocks moving over right to the anchor.
Rappel with two ropes. One 80m might make it.
Above the anchor, a short second pitch leads up the dirty 5.8 corner to a walk-off. We didn't climb it.



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