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All Locations > Washington > Southwest Cascades > Rock Creek Clif… > North Section (Left Side)

Northern Pearl

5.8 YDS 5b French 16 Ewbanks VI- UIAA 15 ZA HVS 4c British


 Avg: 2 from 1 vote

Routes in North Section (Left Side)

Airtime S 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
Committed Convenience S 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
Northern Pearl T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
Pearl Jam T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
Progressive Climax S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
Scorpio S 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
Slow Dance T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
Unknown Route S 5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
Watchman, The S 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
Wyde Syde T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
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Type: Trad, 45 ft
FA: Chad Ellars
Page Views: 120 total · 3/month
Shared By: Micah Klesick on Mar 30, 2015
Admins: Nate Ball, Scott Coldiron, Jon Nelson, Micah Klesick

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Description

Fun fingers crack at the start, leading into a wide flare, and then face holds and finger locks to the top and shared anchor.

Location

Last route on the trail, about 20' after the trail comes around the cliff corner.

Protection

couple finger size cams or nuts, and then a 2" or 3" cam for the flare, and then a couple medium nuts for the top half.

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Northern Pearl is the finger sized route.
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another Chad
5.8 R
another Chad  
5.8 R
Detached, but seemingly stable blocks form the left side of the crack on the top half of Northern Pearl; because of this, all gear placements through this section are suspect.

Detached blocks are highlighted in red.



Chad Apr 10, 2015
George Zack
Orting, WA
George Zack   Orting, WA
A quality addition and good warm up route. The blocks that Chad mentioned look like they are detached, but they don't budge at all when pulling on them, and I found a good placement for a large nut there. It was better than the alternative of a micro-cam in the wiggly dinner plate block in the main crack just to the right...
Oh, and I think that I placed a 4" cam rather than a 3" in the wide section, but seems like both would work. May 31, 2015

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