Heather / Cheating on Heather
5.9 YDS 5c French 17 Ewbanks VI UIAA 17 ZA HVS 5a British R
Type: | Trad |
FA: | Henry Barber, Pete Ramins, Rick Hatch, 1974 |
Page Views: | 319 total · 10/month |
Shared By: | Ben Hoste on Aug 19, 2022 |
Admins: | Morgan Patterson, M Santisi, chris vultaggio |
Description
Squeezed between Son of Easy O and Pas De Deux is Heather, a Henry Barber climb that Dick Williams and the Gunks App say is and X climb.
Starts on face just left of a thin vertical seam on the ground heading up towards a thin crack that starts as vertical and then turns left 90 degrees and angles up and left. Follow this and then up and right along a ramp like feature, then straight up passing the 8" roof on the right that forms the flake that you pass on on the left on Son of Easy O right after fixed pin. Aim for a left leaning seam with grasses growing out of it capped by a small tree. From there go up and left to the large ledge below Son of Easy O's roofs.
There is a variation described in the Gunks App that cuts right over to Pas de Deux or just left of it (but able to place gear in Pas de Deux's vertical crack) before cutting back left to rejoin the route and climb up to the ledge below Son of Easy O. This variation is named Cheating on Heather, and continues up and right on the ramp until you get to the Pas de Deux vertical crack and makes the climb R rather than X.
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