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Climbers on The Witch
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The Witch's head looking from the Dragon Spine.
The approach to the main crag.
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adam winslow
Aug 21, 2010
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The Witch from below.
Routes on main formation as of the end of the 2010 climbing season. Click on picture twice to blow it up and see the lines better. <br> <br> Note that on this picture there are xx's to note the belays, but there are no x's noted to indicate individual protection bolts. There are 26 on the Excaliber pitch alone, and marking them all exactly would have been difficult so the individual bolts were not mapped in this photo. All of the routes have shitloads of bolts with a single exception. Salathe Highway pitch to the top of The Old Witch Pinnacle has no bolts. None. There are @ 347 all over the cliff on all these routes and the bolt count per pitch is in the route descriptions. This pic is to help you orient the routes, not to spy individual bolts, which you will see plastered all over once you walk the base.
Coethedral Formation
The Witch's head looking from the Dragon Spine.
Climbers on The Witch
The approach to the main crag.
Base of climbs with route names tagged.
Bill Coe Solo FA of The Salethe Highway Route up the Old Witch. Thought the route was going to the right, was happy to see what was a faint crack which I dug out and it took pro to the left of the buttress I have a hold of in the photo.
Rock that came off of Bewitched. Left a nice big crater at the bottom. This was pulled off by the follower on pitch 2.
The view of Coethedral and the approach parking spot/road from the top of The Steeple.
Overview map. Google will show the 4620 road. Alternatively, click on http://mapper.acme.com/ if you copy and paste N 45.07790 W 122.09900 in the empty box in the lower right hand corner and click "find", it will get you this. The "3605" noted is the elevation of the formation. In the upper right hand corner you can click on topo or satellite view. This is an amazingly handy site you might book mark and there is no charge for it. <br> <br> This hand drawing zooms in to some finer details which you can match up to the topo map at Acme mapper. <br> <br> When you look at the drawing, you will see that the parking is at a junction, or a T- of a road. That is a little dirt road, it has an ugly greenish gate there (which is open, but behind the gate they dug a big berm so you can't drive it, it's less than a 1/4 mile down the now closed dirt road to a flat slash pile (old burned out logs form a logging operation) with a view of the rock formation. The trail heads into the woods as noted on the map, close to the same direction of the rock, ducks off to the left of the ridge and drops to the base with a few obvious switchbacks. <br> <br> A couple of good links to check a few days before:<br> <br> http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=45.11230010229608&lon=-122.21026618033648&site=pqr&smap=1&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text<br> <br> I had good sucesss looking at the tombstone hwy 20 road cam to see approx what the actual conditions would. Here: http://www.tripcheck.com/Pages/RCMap.asp?curRegion=4&mainNav=RoadConditions