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Tomahawk

5.6, Trad, 200 ft (61 m), 2 pitches,  Avg: 2.5 from 2 votes
FA: unknown
New Jersey > a. NorthWest > Delaware Water… > Mt Tammany > n. Death Don't Have N…

Description

A great route with a first ascent from Richard Pleiss in the late 1970’s. The “Indian head” feature can be seen clearly from across the river on the Pennsylvania side of the Gap. It’s an iconic feature first noticed in the mid-1800’s by tourists on the Lackawanna Railroad. This route starts at the left-facing arete just to the right of the split tree.

Pitch 1: Climb up 15 feet and slant left continuing up another arete to a ledge. Continue up and into the dihedral with a crack to another ledge with bushes. Belay here.

Pitch 2: Exit left and traverse the ledges to the arete then up to the top.

Protection

Standard gap rack: Small to medium cams, 2 large cams, set of stoppers, few small tri-cams.

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Up the vertical crack to briar belay ledge. Indian head is to the right in the corner to ledge.
[Hide Photo] Up the vertical crack to briar belay ledge. Indian head is to the right in the corner to ledge.

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Northeast Mountain Guiding
Lincroft
  5.6
[Hide Comment] Hi Kenneth! This is a great route and the info is accurate. If you're using the NJ Falcon Guide as a reference, that info is innaccurate. Mark Ronca actually wrote the info in the NJ Falcon Guide for Neil Sloane. Neli Sloane messed up the proper route information during writing/publishing as you'll see in comments all over this forum on various routes. Happy climbing! Jan 29, 2023
[Hide Comment] Started on a ledge under a ceiling with trees shooting up the wall to the right of the roof. Traversed under roof to right edge and climbed up and slightly left til I made it to the big ledge and continued up the arete thru cracks and on top of a hollow sounding boulder to offwidth crack to briar ledge. Made gear anchor ten feet down before tree with slings. Apr 16, 2023