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John Hovell

Mammoth Lakes, CA
44 years old · Male

Member Since
Apr 27, 2014
Last Visit: 5 days ago
65 Points
Point Rank: #11,860 DetailsDrop down

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Best Times to Meet: any
Likes Trad, Sport, Boulders
Leads Follows
Trad 5.12a 5.12c
Sport 5.12d 5.13a
Boulders V6
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Comments View All 32

Dec 6, 2020
To me this route does not feel like a “classic”. Difficulty/sandbagging aside, it also felt awkward, off-ba… View Comment
Nov 23, 2020
To give a different perspective than the previous comment. The approach is fine, and trivial if you are alr… View Comment
Nov 23, 2020
Guessing something has broken off between first and second bolt. A little hard to tell since the bottom of… View Comment
Nov 18, 2020
It’s hard to justify giving this route more than 2 stars given the constant rope management/drag/snag poten… View Comment
Aug 4, 2020
I believe the latest edition of the guidebook bumped it down to 7b+. I’ll see if I can change the rating. A… View Comment
Jan 3, 2018
Fun route, but a bit of a squeeze with Salty Dog... many key holds are shared with both routes. Additionall… View Comment

Forum Messages View All 7

Partners > Northern California Partners
Reply: Owens River Gorge partner
Nov 29, 2021 Nick, you live in Mammoth? So do I... figure we should swap contact info esp if you are looking for ORG partner longer term. As for this week I'd like to get out a full day or… View Message
General > Training Forum
Reply: Kilter Original vs Homewall
Sep 23, 2021 The 10x12 home wall expansion is brand new, and at least when I checked a week or two ago had a grand total of 18 additional problems over the 7x10 homewall. Another thing… View Message
Partners > Extended Trips and International Partners
Reply: Margalef, Spain: March 5-16th
Feb 27, 2020 Will be in Siurana area March 3 to 18 if anyone else is looking to rope up. I have a partner through the 10th then solo after that. Ping me if you’d like to climb in Marg… View Message
Partners > Arizona & New Mexico Partners
Homestead or other Sport climbing, any day 12/5 - 12/12
Dec 4, 2019 Saw a few other posts looking for mid-week Homestead or sport partners but thought I'd post up.Looks like decent weather other than maybe rain Sunday?Hoping to work some of the… View Message
MountainProject.com - the site > Help
Reply: Map not working
Sep 23, 2019 Late to this post, but had same problem (search gave no results and using the map function on an area gave the same error message as shown above). I fixed it by deleting the ap… View Message
Regional > Northern California
Reply: Thanks to whoever grabbed my shoes/gear at the Hog…
Aug 25, 2014 That was my friend! Glad you got them back! He brought them to camp Saturday night thinking someone had forgotten them but I was worried someone was just returning late to pick… View Message

Route Scores View All 112

5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a
 2
Hemlock Trip
Sport
5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a
 8
Edge Grinder
Sport
5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
 30
Crown of Needles
Sport
5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
 22
This is the Meaning of Life
Sport, Alpine
5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a
 76
Chillin at the Grill
Sport
5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
 98
Darshan (aka Ripoff)
Sport
Route Name Location Star Rating Difficulty Date
Hemlock Trip Eastern Sierra > Mammoth Lakes Area > Sky Perch
Avg:  2
John:
5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a Sport
5.11d
Edge Grinder N America > … > Black Feather C… > Mind Games Wall
Avg:  8
John:
5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a Sport
Crown of Needles Southern Nevada > … > N Side > Cactus Joe's
Avg:  30
John:
5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c Sport
This is the Meaning of Life Eastern Sierra > … > Horseshoe Piles > Stream Wall
Avg:  22
John:
5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c Sport, Alpine
Chillin at the Grill Eastern Sierra > … > Central Gorge > Social Platform
Avg:  76
John:
5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a Sport
Darshan (aka Ripoff) Eastern Sierra > … > Central Gorge > Upper Crust
Avg:  98
John:
5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b Sport
5.12b
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