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Trinacious

5.7, Sport, 270 ft (82 m), 4 pitches,  Avg: 2.7 from 50 votes
FA: unknown
N Carolina > 1. Southern Mou… > Stone Depot

Description

Pitch 1 80 feet 5.7: The crux pitch. Work your way up some slab. When you get past the second bolt it get easier from there on. 4 bolts to anchors

Pitch 2 60 feet 5.6: Similar to the first pitch the further you climb the easier it gets. Only has one bolt but if you do not feel comfortable you can place a tcu near anchors.

Pitch 3 70 feet 5.5 Much easier slab climbing. 2 bolts

Pitch 4 60 feet 5.3 This pitch will work to the right into a water groove. After the first 10 feet or so it becomes more like class four climbing. 2 bolts

Location

The route is the third one to the left of Mr. Browning. There will be a little drop after a tree near the rock and there is were the route begins. If you have a 70 meter rope you can link three of the pitches together. You can rap off with one rope but you can get down in two raps if you bring two ropes.

Protection

Sport but will take a couple tcu's on pitch 1 and 2

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First pitch of Trinacious, Stone Depot, NC.
[Hide Photo] First pitch of Trinacious, Stone Depot, NC.
My daughter Claire chilling at a belay station. Nice sunny day mid November.
[Hide Photo] My daughter Claire chilling at a belay station. Nice sunny day mid November.
worth climbing just for the view
[Hide Photo] worth climbing just for the view
Off to the races up this fun slab climb
[Hide Photo] Off to the races up this fun slab climb
Mark at or near P1 anchors
[Hide Photo] Mark at or near P1 anchors

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Charles Bryan
Tacoma
 
[Hide Comment] Climbed this weekend. Lead pitch 1. Good slabbing. My partner put together p 2-4 into one on a 70m rope. I had about 3 feet of rope left! Jun 25, 2014
Colonel Sandbag
Boston, MA
[Hide Comment] Right next to the anchors at the top of the first pitch there is a right-facing flake that seems very loose. I was sitting on it and it was stable but when I went to stand up, one of my quickdraws got wedged in between it ant the face, the little lever-action that this produced moved the whole thing. Maybe someone should try and break it off; it's right above the middle of the area where everybody sits/the Outward Bound kids do their climbing. I couldn't because there was a climber below. Aug 20, 2017
Steven Shepherd
 
[Hide Comment] Trinacious was one of the only routes on stone depot that was dry with all of the rain we've gotten recently. All of the business of this route is one the first pitch. The crux was somewhere between bolts one and two or just after clipping the second bolt. Frictiony slab climbing where your hands aren't going to be much help. If 5.7 slab feels spicy to you, I'd recommend a stick clip for the first bolt. It's a pretty remote location and I wouldn't want to get hurt out there.

If you want to get down in a single rappel, you can walk right along a progressively overgrown trail to get to rap rings for at the far end of the wall. It gets bushwacky towards the end of the trail, but stick with it; it's there.

If I do this again, I'd break the climb into 2 pitches with a 60m rope, 1-2 and 3-4. The anchors at the end of pitch 2 had the best belay stance. There's a small ledge you can stand on.

Overall, it's a fun little route with the heady part at the bottom. Good for newish leaders that don't mind a bit of runout over really easy terrain. Aug 26, 2020
Jared Chrysostom
Clemson, SC
 
[Hide Comment] Cool route, pretty casual, the hardest climbing is right off of the ground. Pack light and climb with your stuff, and do the walkoff from the top of the rock - it's a fun day with great views. This route was dry when everything to the right was a soaking wet mess.

A #0.4 and a #1 will protect the runout at the end of pitch 2 if you are not comfortable climbing well above a bolt. Nov 30, 2020