This climb does not suck!!!!

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This climb does not suck!!!!

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Matt on the pegmatite traverse.<br>
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Photo: Tyler Casey.

The scenic on a perfect Oct. fall day. Taken from the third pitch of Checkerboard.

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Dana Prosser

Mar 5, 2008

“This climb does not suck!!!!”

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Managed to capture this team up on the Scenic Cruise while we were descending the gully on the approach to the base of the climb.

Peg Traverse.

Matt on the pegmatite traverse.<br>
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Photo: Tyler Casey.

This climb does not suck!!!!

The scenic on a perfect Oct. fall day. Taken from the third pitch of Checkerboard.

Classic fashion often found on Black Canyon hardmen in the 1980s!<br>

Shows the obvious splitters with The Cruise on the left and the Scenic Cruise on the right. Further right, the obvious, huge, left-facing corner on Journey Home.

Topo.

Jj near the top.

The view of Journey Home & Scenic Cruise from Maiden Voyage.

A route overlay for Scenic Cruise.

The first half of route as seen from the base.

Top of the flake.

Unknown climber scoping out the rest of their day. Taken on a perfect October day, 10/7/21.

A little higher.

The view of journey home & scenic cruise taken on 9/25. I'm happy to share the original file if this is you and you'd like to print a poster.

Photo from the S. Rim showing the route and the Cruise Gully.

This topo starts at pitch 4. The bottom pitches are obscured by the formation in the foreground.

Top of the giant flake.

POV from the P7 'bivy ledge', after the .10+ corner and subsequent wideness.<br>
I love this ledge because it means the burliness is over and I can relax.

Like grandma said, "You had better get back in that damn thing before you flame out and fall!"

Low on the route.

Photo from the S. Rim showing the entire route. FYI, the best viewpoint to see the entire route is "Devils Lookout", you can't see Scenic Cruise very well from the Chasm View viewpoint on the S. Rim.

North Chasm View and the Scenic Cruise, photo: Bob Horan.

Looking up from the base of the route. Pitch 1 starts on the arete in the foreground and climbs into the corner.

Bert is following the sustained 5.10 pitch before the peg.

Entering the crux.

Panorama from the 4th class.

Natalie starting up pitch 5.

Stu feeling casual.

Starting up the crux pitch, photo by Josh Janes.

Finishing the "peg flake" on the Peg traverse. Photo by Josh Janes.

Manteling the "peg flake" on the Peg traverse. Photo by Josh Janes.

The start is easy to find, just start at the huge bush of poison ivy....

Pitch 8 face section. There are 2 bolts and some mandatory 5.9ish moves above the bolts.

The start of pitch 8 traverse.

Wyatt follows the 3rd pitch.

The start of pitch 4 (traverse pitch).

Wyatt handles the crux pitch.

A route overlay for the starting pitches of The Cruise and Scenic Cruise.

A photo route overlay The Cruise and Scenic Cruise.

Francis Sanzaro on P3-4 heading up the long splitter to the base of the pegmatite traverse.

Looking down on the 3rd pitch.

The corner high on pitch 9.

All smiles now that DI is onto the ramp up toward the peg.

DI making the initial moves on to the ramp of the peg traverse.

B. very high on the route.

Danny on the overhanging 5.10 corner pitch on the Scenic Cruise. This pitch immediately follows the peg traverse.

Most of the route is visible here if you zoom in.

BH on Scenic Cruise, North Chasm View.

Tyler Stableford on the flake traverse, P8-9.
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Photo by Francis Sanzaro.

Adam Grasawsky on Scenic Cruise, photo: Bob Horan Collection.

Traversing to the peg.

At the base of climb.

A photo route overlay The Cruise and Scenic Cruise.

Pat Peddy leading the next to last pitch.

A route overlay for the starting pitches of The Cruise and Scenic Cruise.

Launching out across the 10th pitch traverse.