Old 6th pitch belay ledge missing. Lots of loose rock and gavel

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Old 6th pitch belay ledge missing. Lots of loose rock and gavel

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Deb enjoying a bit of exposure on the finish of Pitch #4 (pitch 4 & 5 run together).

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Hanson Boyd

May 21, 2024

“Old 6th pitch belay ledge missing. Lots of loose rock and gavel”

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Beware of Snakes!! Zoom in on the larger crack to the left of the rope. I thought my hand was feeling vegetation...turns out I was wrong. This was at about 400 ft.

Climbing the 5.9 chimney

Correct spelling of the route and beta from an early Chuck Wilts' guidebook.

Here's how I remember climbing it and pitching it out when we climbed it a week ago. The first pitch is completely hidden by the trees.

Joe Ebert just below the chimney

Hoodenett

Pitch 4 chimney

Favorite picture of the day!

No need to draw a route line - the sun does it for us. See Jon in the orange jacket on Whodunit.<br>
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Photo credit Jim Keener

Shan at the Pitch 1 bolted belay station of Whodunit. May 2021

Deb casts off on Pitch #2 of 'Whodunit'. Note the "friendly" #3 KB protecting the moves off the belay anchor.

trip report at tenthousandtoofar.com

Not the greatest photo, but the rope and gear follow the line that lets you detour around the wide section at the start of pitch 6.

Climber is off route, a little right from whodunit real line. I'm pretty sure the line follows the yellow, and the red X is where the slab 5.9 crux is

Big detached block before the old 6th pitch belay

Good look at the start of the first pitch. That is after you climb up 30 feet of 5.5 to a bush is where this picture is taken from.

Jascha after the first 5.9 crux, pulling an overlap with a thin finger crack

Follow the obvious line of cracks to the top! (Just to the left of the red line)

Nick Buffini starting up the second pitch

At the summit after finishing Whodunit

summit post whodunit

Rattlesnake in the yellow circled bit. It didn't bite us or the party above us, but it rattle and investigated my partners hand - I could see it slowly move in the direction of my partners hand. :/ Beware. Same as Flower of High Rank but it was aggressive

Unidentified climber (I know he's from Colorado) approaching the 4th belay.

Pierce heading up our pitch 3

Top of 7th pitch, right before the roof at the top.

jascha approaching the second belay

Looking down from where I set up the anchor at the top of P1.

I know there's already a few route line photos but I find this view to be a bit more helpful. The chockstone seems sketchy, I tried to avoid putting weight on it. I opted to climb the off width, its low angle and felt secure. Combined last two pitches.

Looking down Pitch 2, Mark Goss coming up.

waiting in line

Starting up the second pitch. Good stuff. All of it.

Sarah heading over the final roofs.

My partner is where I set up our second belay after the chimney. I think I went a little higher than the ledge others have described. A 70M rope got there with maybe 5-10 feet to spare in the rope.

There's a block above the P1 belay (after the lieback) that's barely hanging on—maybe only 1–2 inches are keeping it attached. The crack seems like it's about to fully take over. I climbed this on a crowded Sunday with parties above and below me

Looking up from where I set up the anchor at the top P1, maybe 20-30 above the bolted anchors. A 70M gets there fine.

jascha after exiting the chimney

Looking up at what I believe was near the start of P3 for us (I set up P1 above the bolted anchor and P2 well above the chimney using a 70M rope).

Lukes shadow on whodunit

Old 6th pitch belay ledge missing. Lots of loose rock and gavel

Deb enjoying a bit of exposure on the finish of Pitch #4 (pitch 4 & 5 run together).

I know there's already a few route line photos but I find this view to be a bit more helpful. The chockstone seems sketchy, I tried to avoid putting weight on it. I opted to climb the off width, its low angle and felt secure. Combined last two pitches.

The pitch after the chimney I believe.

Laura climbs the first pitch of Whodunit

5.9 chimney pitch (crux is exiting it)

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