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Killer Whale
5.10c,
Sport, TR,
Avg: 1.5 from 23
votes
FA: Chris Peterson
Arizona
> Southern Arizona
> Mt Lemmon (Sant…
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> 4 - Windy Point…
> N Fin
Description
Bolts: 4. Anchors: Metolius Rap anchors. (May be replaced by chains soon.) Route: developed by Kellen Harshbarger and Dan Pearce. Big thanks to Ben Burnham for advice, loan of equipment, and history lessons. He made a 3 weekend job about one hour of fun.
First set of bolts left of Airmonsters. Climb a jutting flake to the obvious bulge. Over the bulge to the top and the anchors. Ground fall is possible off first bolt.
Protection
Sport route
Tucson, AZ
Tucson, AZ
I leave it to you to figure out how to clean one climb and move the anchors to another without doing anything stupid. I mention this because I saw some pretty questionable toproping practices at North Fin today. Mar 18, 2007
Tucson
Truckee,Ca
Sahuarita, AZ
Killer whale is a stiff 5.10 and there were a couple times I was thankful that I didn't decide to lead it. The rock is very tough on the fingers. May 9, 2008
Check the egos at the parking lot and rate a route what it is!
Sandbagging is just as silly as over rating a climb.
This route is harder than Five O'clock Shadow which is consensus 5.10+.
Of course if all your ever doing is top roping, the rating is irrelevant safety wise. May 13, 2008
Tucson, AZ
If you fall, better to shoot for climber's left and a get a couple of extra feet of air from the downhill grade.
There's a decent and safe stance from which to clip that bolt if it's already got a draw on it and you're fairly tall. I'm 5'8 and had to get scarily close to it before I could put a draw through it.
All in all, if you're gonna lead it and it's close to your limit, I'd recommend rapping in and putting all the draws in first, including an extra long one for the last bolt.
Jul 6, 2008
Tucson, AZ
it would probably be fun to toprope but after taking that fall and realizing i would have hit the deck if i had climbed a couple of feet higher i was kind of turned off to it. if you're going to bolt a sport route then do it safely. otherwise don't do it at all.
EDIT
i should have known. the hint is in the name. this thing is a man-eater. Mar 28, 2010
Tucson, AZ
Also, the left short trad route was really cool as well, I would give it 9+ or 10-, take your pick. The movement was really interesting up the clean corner at the top. May 7, 2011
Tucson, AZ
Tucson
Tucson