Aaron Wait, wrapping up the day

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Aaron Wait, wrapping up the day

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This was the crux if I remember - here's Bruce pulling around the corner and up out of the chimney. These were taken March or April 2004. We took the Solar gully descent (I think - 2nd gully on the right) - it was wilder and spicier than the climbing but beautiful!

Fore-shortened view of all of the Black Orpheus route. December 2009.

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Launching up into the crack and corner of pitch 8 (SuperTopo). December 31, 2009.

Curt riding the bull on top of Black Orpheus.

Mo on P10 just before the "5.6" lieback

Black Orpheus

Looking up at Black Orpheus

annotated route

Cool exposure just before the thin hands crack

The "cool little arch" (from Supertopo descent beta) you pass through if you are doing the single rope rappel descent.

Xavier Wasiak leading the first pitch

Brett pulls down on the Black Orpheus crux section.

Richard at the massive dihedral. Photo by Xavier Wasiak (rope gun). Xavier led all pitches that day, often faster than Richard could follow them.

Mo leading P8

Approaching the handcrack

Andrei Zippy on the 5.9 mnoney pitch of Black Orpheus

A variation to the bottom section of Black Orpheus. See comments under the route description.

Andrei Zippy on the start of P3 or top of 2nd pitch depending on how you do it.

Steve leading the sweet 5.9 pitch.

This was the crux if I remember - here's Bruce pulling around the corner and up out of the chimney. These were taken March or April 2004. We took the Solar gully descent (I think - 2nd gully on the right) - it was wilder and spicier than the climbing but beautiful!

Aaron Wait, wrapping up the day

Fore-shortened view of all of the Black Orpheus route. December 2009.

Aaron heads for the final layback

looking back at the route

Aaron, start of the day

Looking down pitch 5, showing the chimney and thin hands corner

another view of Painted Bowl

The "5.6" corner on Pitch 10 of Black Orpheus.

Beginning the descent towards Painted Bowl after climbing Black Orpheus. Eagle Wall is in background left.

Pitch 1 of Black Orpheus.

Pitch 8 of Black Orpheus, where the fun really begins.

Painted Bowl

looking down the slabs that make up P4-7

looking down P1

The infamous IBM Boulder on the descent (approx 8 feet in diameter).

James making quick work of the crux on Pitch 10.

Sweet 5.9 pitch after the easy section.

Following the second pitch

P11

Mo leading P2

Fun climbing on Pitch 2 of Black Orpheus.

first single and double rope raps on the Chicken Lips descent

Twin cracks on Pitch 9 of Black Orpheus.

second single rope rap on the Chicken Lips descent (anchor is at the top of the chimney)

Pitch 11 of Black Orpheus. To the top!

traditional slither at the bottom of the Chicken Lips/Painted Bowl descent (as of March 2012 the cairns take you slightly upstream of this)

The second rappel (if you are doing single rope rappels) on the descent into Painted Bowl.

The crux pitch on Black Orpheus 5.9+/5.10

way to the rap station for the Chicken Lips descent

Stone Wells relaxin' all cool at the pitch 5 belay according to MP.