Perla's Ridge is well upcanyon of all of the Bell Towers, including Waterfall Dome. Photo taken from mouth of Bell's Canyon

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Perla's Ridge is well upcanyon of all of the Bell Towers, including Waterfall Dome. Photo taken from mouth of Bell's Canyon

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Red line shows final part of approach. Blue circles are approximate location of belays. Photo taken from LCC road.

The crux section of the endless dihedral. Picture taken on the rest stance. Constant 5.7 liebacking from the belayer to the rest, hardest at the end as it goes more horizontal/underclingy.

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Jim D

Aug 27, 2015

“Perla's Ridge is well upcanyon of all of the Bell Towers, including Waterfall Dome. Photo taken from mouth of Bell's Canyon”

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Red line shows final part of approach. Blue circles are approximate location of belays. Photo taken from LCC road.

Perla's Ridge is well upcanyon of all of the Bell Towers, including Waterfall Dome. Photo taken from mouth of Bell's Canyon

The crux section of the endless dihedral. Picture taken on the rest stance. Constant 5.7 liebacking from the belayer to the rest, hardest at the end as it goes more horizontal/underclingy.

The 7th pitch 5.7R slab, from there the climber goes left to the arete and stays on it, or wusses out and goes right.

The 6th pitch crux ("off-width") from above

Pitch 6 crux (the "5.8 offwidth") from below

Above the first pitch and almost even with The Thumb!

Summit

The original topo

Leading the dihedral.

The "Endless Dihedral" corner goes for a whole pitch! Low angle, but sustained (except for one good pod to the left of the crux).

A shot from fairly high above the road. And we hadn't even started the harder pitches yet!

The headwall... Climb some low angle (low 5th) to the base of the headwall, and scramble up left throught the trees (3rd). The slabs can also be skipped entirely by heading left early. Or check out all the cool crack systems directly on the headwall!

A shot of me in the same spot... It's a good spot.

Pitch 9, you can either go left or right below the climber. The climber can also go right or left from where he is at.

This is the back of Perrla's Ridge as taken from where you first hit the Bell's Canyon trail. As you can see, if you go straight South (right in the picture) you'll hit the forest floor after ~200 feet of downclimbing and rappelling. If you go down the shoulder (left from the peak in the photo) first, you have to go quite a ways or you'll be cliffed out.

The 5.8R chimney in the gully, i.e. the left option

The loose gully option in the gully, i.e the right (and recommended) option

On the right is the headwall. On the left is the steep vegetated dirt. Go all the way to the top of it, then right.

Fun day out on the ridge.

Bobby above the first pitch.