The Dharma Initiative
5.8 YDS 5b French 16 Ewbanks VI- UIAA 15 ZA HVS 4c British
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Type: | Trad, 1000 ft (303 m), 7 pitches |
FA: | unknown |
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Shared By: | Robert Hall on Sep 28, 2015 · Updates |
Admins: | Jay Knower, M Sprague, Jeffrey LeCours, Jonathan S, Robert Hall |
Description
The Dharma Initiative starts about 75 ft uphill of "A Bit Too Short", (see Topo/Photo posted to "Main Slab").
Pitch 1: runout easy terrain to a brief and bolt protected slab crux, then break through the short headwall (two BD .5 cams protect it well). Then belay from either the two bolt anchor of A Bit Too Short (climbers left) OR a gear anchor in a crack ~20ft climbers R
Pitch 2: Straight up through the overlap (cams) then straight up the slab at 5.3 to a gear belay in a groove
Pitch 3: Up the short water groove corner (5.8, protects with a #1 BD cam, and small, finicky gear) to a bolt, then up 5.7 friction slab past two more bolts to a two bolt anchor (FUN!)
Pitch 4: up slab (5.5) past one bolt and a cam option in a hueco to a two bolt anchor
Here we ended up on A Bit Too short and did the following (yielding climbers right, one would find instead a 2" crack and a 5.8 layback/mantle to a tree with rap rings as per the topo, then an optional 6th pitch to the belay shared with Direct and A Bit Too Short) :
Pitch 5: up 5.5 past a crack (red totem or similar) and two bolts to a two bolt anchor
Pitch 6: as for direct
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