Ascent Notes for: Portent - 5.6 popular Average Rating : 3.91/5

My brother and I did this in two pitches. There was nice exposure on the traverse.

Fun easy warm up climb, my first climb at Pinacles

Very fun and exposed.

I told myself that I could climb this route a million times and not even think of falling, with crumbly rock or not (Pinnacles is known for this, but it is such a well traveled route that I haven't seen any), so I soloed it. It was beautiful, plus you can just walk off.

plug a cam in the bottom crux, and enjoy the view as you cruise on up!

Good climb all the way through, the difficulty stays about the same all the way through. The bolts are a tiny bit spaced but less so than usually in Pinnacles. I used a cam and a nut before the 1st bolt, then all on the bolts only.

I did it in 1 pitch, and at the end, the drag was crazy, needed my hand to pull hard for some slacks, and then do a move - probably because of my cam&nut early on... (and I even only put 1 rope in those protection specifically to avoid this!)

There is a belay anchor at the top, but for rappel, walk about 20m to the right to the prominent rock with the obvious rappel station.

Jacob lead the bottom section, I lead the top as he belayed me from the belay anchors.

We did it in two pitches... the first pitch was very short... found a quick-draw on the way up near the top... somebody must have bailed...

Good, easy lead. Can do it all as 1 long pitch, or break it into 2 or 3 shorter pitches. While a "sport" lead (and bolted), you should use longer slings than normal quickdraws - even so rope drag is substantial if you do it all in 1 pitch.

The crux moves are the first 10-15 feet (unprotected), and the first bolt is quite a ways up - it's actually the first of two 2-bolt belay stations. I ended up placing one cam before these bolts, but did the rest on the bolts. It was a bit runout between bolts IMHO - but easy climbing so not a big concern.

Great begineer route, can be done in 1 pitch with some very long slings to reduce rope drag.