PRINT: Rock Climb Bob's Your Uncle, Frenchman Coulee (Vantage)

Bob's Your Uncle

5.11a, Trad, 80 ft (24 m),

Avg: 3.5 from 113 votes
FA: Russell Johnson (1987)
Washington > Central Region > Frenchman Coule… > Echo Basin > Sunshine Wall > (c) King Pins

Description

If you like finger cracks, you're gonna love your Uncle Bob.

Standing on the trail you can easily spot the crux. Work your way up the finger and hand crack using great jams, crimps, underclings, jugs and stems until you arrive at the business.

It's short and sweet and will test your thin crack skills but the gear is good. Chains at the top.

Location

Just left of offwidth (steel grill 5.9) and right of Stems and Seeds.

Protection

up to 2" with extra finger size.

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Eyeballing the crux while shaking out

beautiful fingers!

so many people and dogs I can hardly think.

grabbing the jugs of success

Resting up before the finger crack crux.

Taken from the base of the climb.

Getting established. Vantage sunworship

the upper part of "bob's" on a glorious winter day.

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Geoff Georges
Seattle, WA

5.11a

One of my favorite routes at Vantage. Lower 3/4 of route is mid 5.10, the last 1/4 is the business.
I gave this a anchor in 2016 so one does not have to use the Steel Grill anchor. May 15, 2014

Michael T
WA

5.11a

Best route i've climbed in vantage! Bombproof gear everywhere you want it and not the usual polished feet you get on the easier stuff. Jan 21, 2018

Heemun K
Seattle, WA

5.11a

Great route. Takes nuts well. Blue alien/purple tcu useful to protect start. Apr 27, 2018

Dan V

5.11a

I thought this climbed more like a face with thin gear for the lower 2/3. Definitely not a "hand/fist crack". Great route, I didn't place anything larger than a red Camalot, and second the suggestion for extra finger size gear. Nov 1, 2018

Christopher Zammit
Chapel Hill, NC

5.10+

Great holds for most of the route with small gear. Felt like I was sport climbing on small gear and then came the crack with just a few sustained moves. Great route and I highly recommend it. Mar 6, 2020

Jack Taylor
Issaquah, WA

Best way to keep the whole route roughly the same grade of 10+/ 11a is to climb in from right crack of stems and seeds. Stems Your Uncle? Dec 4, 2020

Derrick Meyers
Kirkland, WA

5.11-

Best route I've climbed at vantage. Nothing bigger than a .75 and x4 #.3
This is the only 11a i've climbed here that I feel is true to the grade. much harder than, Mr. Clean, Stems and Seeds, and Jihad. Feb 8, 2021