Entering the crux.

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Entering the crux.

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

Natalie starting up pitch 5.

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Moritz B.

Sep 29, 2014

“Entering the crux.”

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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.

This climb does not suck!!!!

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.

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 little higher.

Top of the flake.

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.

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

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.

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

Low on the route.

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

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.

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.

Panorama from the 4th class.

Stu feeling casual.

Starting up the crux pitch, photo by Josh Janes.

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

Finishing 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....

Entering the crux.

Natalie starting up pitch 5.

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

Pat Peddy leading the next to last pitch.

At the base of climb.

Looking down on the 3rd pitch.

Launching out across the 10th pitch traverse.

B. very high on the route.

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

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

BH on Scenic Cruise, North Chasm View.

Traversing to the peg.

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

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

The first half of route as seen from the base.

The start of pitch 4 (traverse pitch).

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

The start of pitch 8 traverse.

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

The corner high on pitch 9.

Wyatt handles the crux pitch.

A route overlay for Scenic Cruise.

Wyatt follows the 3rd pitch.