Type: Trad, 80 ft
FA: John Cardmon (solo), 1999
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Shared By: Johnny K. on Jul 26, 2011
Admins: C Miller, M. Morley, Adam Stackhouse, Salamanizer suchoski, Justin Johnsen, Vicki Schwantes

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Description

Climb the crack (hidden in the photo) on the right side inside of the chimney, or climb the chimney strictly to gain access to the ledge. Make some moves onto the face, then up to some small ledges. Anchors on the big ledge to the left on the tower, or continue up to the top of black bluff.

Another variation is to climb the chimney or the crack, then traverse over to the thin small roof portion that finishes on "Control Tower" anchors or link up the rest of "Best of Both Worlds".

Location

Located on the right side on the north face of Black Bluff.

Protection

Standard rack to #3 camalot
Couple runners for the ledges

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Krysten enjoying Best of Both Worlds
Krysten enjoying Best of Both Worlds
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Kenny at the good jams at the top.
Kenny at the good jams at the top.
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Coming out of the chimney up to the last big ledge! This is the best jamming of the route in my opinion!
Coming out of the chimney up to the last big le…
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Best of Both Worlds, on the left
Best of Both Worlds, on the left
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Best of Both Worlds (left). Just next to chimney.
Best of Both Worlds (left). Just next to chimney.
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Best of both Worlds
Best of both Worlds
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Best of both Worlds
Best of both Worlds
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Jeff Botimer
  5.8
Jeff Botimer  
  5.8
I am not sure if the anchors that the description is talking about are exclusive to this route or if this route shares anchors with aurora borealis, but if "Best of both worlds" had its own anchors at one time, they are no longer there. I climbed up to the aurora anchors and used a directional to anchor this route. Aug 20, 2012
Chris Owen
Big Bear Lake
Chris Owen   Big Bear Lake  
No anchors have been removed, but there are anchors on top of the detached tower making up one wall of the chimney (Control Tower anchors). Oct 10, 2012
Sean
Oak Park, CA
Sean   Oak Park, CA
gear anchor at the tree atop the last big ledge, then walk off to climber's left; or continue up and right to go over easy blocks to reach bolted rap rings atop Aurora Borealis Sep 8, 2014
Ancent
Reno, NV
  5.7
Ancent   Reno, NV
  5.7
From the top of the block, keep climbing, following the cracks up and right. There are nice rap rings at the top and nothing goes at harder than 5.7. May 28, 2016
Camron
  5.7
Camron  
  5.7
The only two anchors I found for this route are at the top of control tower or on top of Aurora Borealis. However, there are plenty of options to build an anchor at the top of the finger crack that goes up past the chimney portion of the climb. Jul 10, 2016
Jack C. Beckley
arcadia ca
 
Jack C. Beckley   arcadia ca
 
We built an anchor at the last big ledge and then walked off to the climbers left! Worked great and would recommend doing it this way because there are some great jams past the "control tower" anchors. May 22, 2017