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He is Truly a Great Airplane (Hitaga)
5.10d,
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FA: D. Pearson, J. Nelson, 2012
Washington
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Description
(AKA HITAGA) From the large, treed ledge just above the Bobcat Cringe, scramble up the huge detached flake, step across to the upward-left-arching ramp. Go up the thin corner in the otherwise blank face to the large ledge about 2/3 up the face.
The crux is bolt-protected, thin laybacking near the top.
After the crux, you must mantle up onto the belay ledge, which has a two-bolt, chained anchor. It is also possible to exit the ledge on the left and join the next-to-last pitch of Solitude.
Location
Lies directly above the Bobcat Cringe. Starts on the large, treed ledge about 10' above the anchors.
Protection
For the bottom half, bring small wired nuts and cams to about 2". The top half is bolted.
[Hide Photo] The start of He is Truly a Great Airplane (HITAGA) 10d. Photo by Derek Pearson.
[Hide Photo] This right after cleaning the pitch HITAGA. We rappelled after break and Jon freed the pitch and I followed. That was another productive day, one of many with you Jon.
[Hide Photo] Hitaga in yellow. (Magenta is Bobcat Cringe.) (Photo by Adam Wood.) The green line is a handline to Buckminster Palace on Burt's Alpine Dirt Bus (also next to Solitude Cave, if one needs the shade).
[Hide Comment] Interestingly, He is Truly a Great Airplane is a unique sentence in all of the internet, and potentially has no other application in all of the English language. Well done Jon and Derek.
Aug 19, 2019
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I fear that the start has probably regrown. Aug 19, 2019