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steelclimbing
Oct 11, 2005, 9:47 PM
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has any one done or heard anything about a climb called Zions curtain up the court of the patriarchs canyon in Zions its on the opposite side of Abraham I think its called the back side of the Sentinel. We saw a climb up this steep arete and thought is was a climb called off to see the lizard but when we went up there to climb it last weekend we found out that the route we wanted to do was to the left of off to see the lizard. So we went up it with out a topo or any thing but only made it half way be for we had to come down to make it to school in the morning.
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tenesmus
Oct 11, 2005, 10:16 PM
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If you find out please post it up.
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bsmoot
Oct 12, 2005, 2:57 AM
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SteelClimbing:
Haven't climbed on the Sentinal before, but I know that there are 2 impressive looking aid routes. They are left of Off to See the Lizard going up the smooth overhanging Leaning Tower-like wall on the left side of the north face. The left one is Brown Eyed Girl ( V+ 5.8 A3+) and the right...Zion Curtain.
What was the climbing like? How many pitches did you climb?
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mokingfetid
Oct 12, 2005, 3:58 PM
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There might have been a picture of it in a recent climbing magazine. Anybody remember?
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dig_scott
Nov 10, 2005, 3:22 AM
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as we found out there are actually three routes, or 2.5 to the right of off to see the lizard
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epic_ed
Nov 23, 2005, 7:53 PM
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Wow -- yeah, that's impressive. Much like Desert Shield, as you said. The bottom pitches look like shit, as usual for Zion routes. The top out looks like a grind -- do you just rappel the route?
Ed
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powerandrubber
Nov 23, 2005, 8:48 PM
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The folks we saw rapped it. They stopped at the top of the headwall where the obvious good rock ends. Don't know if that's the end of the route but it looks epic from there. The first couple pitches don't look as bad up close and are short.
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dig_scott
Jan 5, 2006, 4:13 AM
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did you take this picture 11-06-05 and wearing a red coat?
the 9th pitch heads right along the obvious crack(hard to see in this pic) and then heads up a sandy and what looked unprotectable corner. it was dark and i wasnt about to free climb in my boots loaded down with gear. theres a single bolt that i was lowered off of. the bolt is very close to 95 feet from the belay and we just had enough rope.
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dig_scott
Jan 5, 2006, 4:16 AM
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The first two pitches absolutly SUCKED. Steelclimbing as done a fair number of walls in Zion and said this was by far the worst. It took us half a day of climbing just to get the the headwall the first time we did it.
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powerandrubber
Jan 9, 2006, 6:33 PM
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I also responded to your PM but yes it was 11/6 or 11/7. We were across the way on Tricks. I had an orange jacket but don't remember putting it on, maybe at the bivy. Here's a fuzzy zoom shot. Nice job on that route, what would you rate it?
http://www.prughlenon.com/...ert/zionscurtain.jpg
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