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Petzoldt Ridge

Name: Petzoldt Ridge
Rating: 3.3

5.6 YDS 4c French 14 Ewbanks V UIAA 12 ZA S 4b British

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	Bean's Shining Wall of Storms T 5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a
	Beyer East Face I T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Black Ice - West Face Combination T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c AI3
	Burgette Arête T 5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c
	Collins-Coombs T 5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Collins-Hume T 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
	Crystal Right T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b C0
	Crystal Tower T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Direct Petzoldt Ridge T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	East Face Direct T 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	East Ridge T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	Emerson Chimney T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Exum Ridge T 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
	Fight or Flight Traverse T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Flipping Tokens to Hoboken T 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
	Ford - Stettner Couloir (Ski Descent) WI2-3 Mod. Snow
	Gold Face T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Golden Pillar, Direct North Face T 5.12- 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a
	Jackson-Rickert Crack T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b X
	Lower Exum Ridge T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	North Buttress Direct T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b R
	North Face Highlight Tour T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	North Face Standard T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	North Ridge T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	North Side Lowlight Tour (path of least resistance) T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b Easy Snow
	Owen Spalding T 5.4 4a 12 IV 10 VD 3c
	Perception Traverse T 5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c PG13
	Petzoldt Ridge T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Pownall-Gilkey T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Psudo Emerson Chimney T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c M4-
	Simpleton Pillar T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c M1 Mod. Snow
	Stettner Couloir T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b WI2-3 Mod. Snow
	Underhill Ridge Original/Direct T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	West Face of the Exum Ridge T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Wish You Were Here T 5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Wittich Crack T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	Wooden Ships T 5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a R

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Type:	Trad, Alpine, 800 ft (242 m), 6 pitches, Grade III
FA:	July 14, 1941; Paul Petzoldt, Elizabeth Cowles, Marry Merrick and Frederick Wilson Jr.
Page Views:	1,119 total · 39/month
Shared By:	Russ Gray on Sep 6, 2022
Admins:	Mike Snyder, Taylor Spiegelberg, Jake Dickerson Page Updates (admin only)

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Description

This is the original line on the ridge and follows weaknesses on the face to the right of the crest. The rock quality is mostly excellent and several enjoyable variations are possible.

(1) The original start in the Stettner Couloir is no longer recommended because of increased rockfall in the couloir. We avoided the couloir by climbing a variation starting at the base of the buttress, moving up and traversing right for two short pitches to the base of the left facing corner.

(2) Climb the left facing corner up left past a couple of old fixed pitons and then slightly right to a small ledge below a steeper section & small roof. (Note that this corner feature is not visible when standing at the toe of the buttress.)

(3) Climb through the roof and a short left facing corner and then follow a crack system to a belay

(4) continue up the crack system to a belay left of a roof.

(5) climb a gully or cracks on either side and belay below a chimney

(6) climb the chimney and then scramble to the top of the ridge

From the top of the buttress a short rappel leads to the notch and a large left (west) trending ramp that joins the Exum Ridge Ridge above the Golden Stair.