Type: | Trad, 120 ft (36 m) |
FA: | Tony Calderone, Pam Ulmer 1996 |
Page Views: | 968 total · 14/month |
Shared By: | zoso on Sep 20, 2018 |
Admins: | GRK, Mike Engle, Eric Bluemn |
Please be respectful of the land owner's wishes and do not climb or hike here until further notice. This includes White Lightning, Skinner Roof, Weather Wall, Yellow Wall, Larry's Annihilation, Needle Rock, Mississippi Fred's, and Secret Tom's. Park officials and CRAG are working to regain access to this valuable climbing resource. Be patient and check back for updates.
(2) No trash cans anywhere in City of Rocks: urlzs.com/c4eZH
(3) HIGHLINING IS PROHIBITED
By the authority of the park manager, Highlining at City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rocks State Park is temporarily prohibited as of August 28, 2019.
The park(s) is reviewing highlining activities. Here are Google Drive links to the closure and the updated Code of Regulations for CIRO. drive.google.com/open?id=1y… and drive.google.com/open?id=1Y…
Description
Climb the water runnel where the slab gets steeper. Here, you can place small gear to protect moves out right on good holds. Continue upwards on easy ground to the base of two crack systems. Here, you can pick one of two options:
1) The left parallel cracks in the dihedral climb at 5.6 and appear to be what is described in Bingham's book (although the picture shows the route taking the right crack)
2) The right splitter hand crack can be climbed at ~5.8
Build an anchor at the top of your crack system of choice, then walk off to the Beeline chains to rappel.
An alternative start includes clipping the first two bolts of Beeline to protect the initial runout before moving right across the water runnel.
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