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All Locations > California > Western Sierra > Needles / Kern… > Hermit Spires > S Face (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c R)
Looking up the awesome dihedral. The dihedral iis Pitches 4/5 in the guidebook.
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Richard Shore starting up P1. Photo: Erik Harz
the South Face of Hermit Spire
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Steph Abegg
Jul 1, 2017
“Looking up the awesome dihedral. The dihedral iis Pitches 4/5 in the guidebook.”  

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Looking up the awesome dihedral. The dihedral iis Pitches 4/5 in the guidebook.
the South Face of Hermit Spire
On the summit block!
There are a few ways to surmount the summit block: a 5.10 offwidth around left (guidebook said it was around right which is a typo), a 5.10 on the prow, and a 5.6 around to the right. The prow looked a bit hard to protect, so we went around right, looking for the offwidth. Not finding the offwidth (since it was actually around left), we went up the 5.6 crack.
Dow climbing the awesome dihedral.
Pitch 2. You can climb it as an offwidth or use face and flake features (at least the left side, which is the side we climbed).
Dow starting up Pitch 1. The start to the route cannot be seen from below but it is fairly obvious when you get there. The splitter hand crack in the photo is called The Hand Crack and is rated 10a.
Hermit Spire summit block with a January wildfire (!) burning less than a mile to the north
Erik Harz leading the P6 dogleg crack to the summit notch.
P5 wideness. Photo: Erik Harz
Richard Shore on the beautiful P4 dihedral. Photo: Erik Harz
Erik Harz leading the runout P2