Frontside 180
5.7 YDS 5a French 15 Ewbanks V+ UIAA 13 ZA MVS 4b British
| Type: | Sport, 720 ft (218 m), 10 pitches |
| GPS: | 49.90261, -123.15917 |
| FA: | James Foord-Kelcey, Jay Robinson, Kye Egan-Robinson, Tess Egan, Toby Foord-Kelcey |
| Page Views: | 17,582 total · 212/month |
| Shared By: | pefue on Jul 21, 2019 · Updates |
| Admins: | Mark Roberts, Kate Lynn, Braden Batsford, Mauricio Herrera Cuadra |
Description
10 pitch sport climbing route just south of the Electric Avenue crags. The establishers have published a PDF that contains an excellent description of the route:
PDF via squamishclimbingmagazine.ca
The route is bolted really well and is the absolute opposite of runout. A very good choice for a first multi pitch endeavor.
Descent: please read the section below.
Location
The route starts at an obvious west-facing bolted slab, just above the trail in the trees about 30m south of the main Electric Avenue cliffs.
Protection
12 quickdraws. You can easily link pitches with a 70m rope. 60m rope will come up short if linking longer pitches. You may consider bringing additional alpine draws if you plan on linking.
Note: Pitch 2 has 16 total bolts. If clipping all bolts, 16 draws are required. It is safe to skip 4 of these to keep the total count at 12.
Descent
From the top of the last pitch, follow cairns to the summit of Mount Chek, then take the trail on the backside (East) that goes down towards The Monastery and back to Electric Avenue (this descent will be climber's right from the route).
DO NOT hike the loose cairned trail that drops down to the west over the top of Rock of Ages. Its use creates rockfall danger for climbers below on Rock of Ages.
Please DO NOT rappel the route, as not only you put others at risk of falling rocks, gear, etc., but it also detracts from the experience and creates chaos for everyone.
If you have to bail because of bad weather, dehydration, lack of motivation, etc., you can WALK OFF the route from any the two big terraces that split the route into three tiers:
1) from the base of pitch 4, simply continue walking the trail that put you at the base of the pitch until it takes you back down to Electric Avenue;
2) from the base of pitch 7, walk left towards the Rock of Ages area (clearly visible about 15 meters away), then take it's approach trail back down to Electric Avenue.
Both escape descents are climber's left from the route.



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