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Routes in Table Mountain
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"False" Holy Smoke T 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a |
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[Redacted] T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b X |
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Bugs Eat Frogs T 5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c |
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Cader Crack T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b |
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Citizen of the Realm T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c |
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City of Lost Children T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c |
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Dick to the Rescue T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b |
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Genevieve T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b R |
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Holy Grail T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b |
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Hornet T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b |
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King Arthur's Arete T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c |
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Merlin T 5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c R |
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Merlin's Wand T 5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c PG13 |
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Noble Gesture T 5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c R |
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Old Smokey's Return, The T 5.4 4a 12 IV 10 VD 3c |
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One Joust Wonders, The T,TR 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b R |
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Percival's Quest T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c |
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Percival’s Revenge T 5.7+ 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b |
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Picnic Table T 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a PG13 |
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REAL Holy Smoke & Table Scraps T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a PG13 |
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Red Knight's Romp, The T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b |
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Siege (“Seat”) Perilous T,TR 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b X |
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Sir Bors Dream T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b X |
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Sir Hector's Highway T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c PG13 |
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Table Talk T 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b |
| Type: | Trad, 250 ft (76 m), 2 pitches |
| FA: | Matt Peer and Mark Hanson 1982 |
| Page Views: | 997 total · 8/month |
| Shared By: | Robert Hall on Sep 17, 2013 · Updates |
| Admins: | Jay Knower, M Sprague, Lee Hansche, Jeffrey LeCours, Jonathan S, Robert Hall |
Description
"History" - Perhaps named, either as a play on words, after the Moody Blues mega hit love song "Nights in White Satin" (1967) or Giorgio Mooder's take-off album "Knights in White Satin" (1967). Googling either produces a number of references to people who honestly thought the song was about "Knights" (as in the Round Table), as opposed to "nights" spent in the white satin sheets given to the band leader! Perhaps so did Peer-Hanson!?
After spending several hours in the neighborhood of where this climb should be I have concluded: A) The climb has virtually NO PROTECTION and is a total run-out once above a placement about 15-20 ft off the ground, and B) The nut belay at a flake [Webster] is probably the flake 165 (+/- ?)ft up, and 35 feet left of the maple-tree-cluster at the top of pitch1 of Holy Grail. C) I once considered the possibility that Knights and Holy Grail were one-and-the same climb, but this is refuted by the fact that Webster lists both climbs as having FAs by the same people, so they should know.
Here is a line which is probably as good as any, add a star or two if you are really "into" 5.7 "X" routes:
P1 See LOCATION/START - Climb over the curving "flake / overlap" and continue up the orange rock above. No protection. The climb passes closely to a significant ledge about 100 feet up, (where there is now a belay/rap anchor on "Red Knight") but there was nothing there on the FA. Continue up 50-60 feet to a low-angled flake-corner and belay [gear, TCU's and/or wire nuts]. 165ft( +/-) 5.5 X This flake-corner is about 30-35ft left of the clump of small maple trees that is the belay & rap anchor for Holy Grail.
"ALTERNATE" (Possibly the line of FA, but 5.6-5.7R/X) Start as for Holy Grail, but then move further left into distinctly orange-colored rock and then up, reaching the same ledge at 100-120ft as described above. 5.6 R/X 5.7 R/X Continue up to the belay corner.
P2 Climb the flake-corner, then the slab, heading diagonally right to the trees. You might encounter t 2 new bolts on this 'upper slab'. (see "False Holy Smoke", P2 )
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