Ascent Notes for: The West Slabs - 5.5 popular Average Rating : 4.56/5

this climb is great. For raping down you must have 2 60 meter ropes. as you climb if you start were i started, which is right by a boulder that you can hide all your stuff under, you look to your left as you are climbing and you will see rap stations. Look carefully as you climb and the descent vie rappel will not be as confusing as people make it out to be

This is a great route - I think someone (might be me) needs to GPS the Rap Stations, or at least make a REALLY GOOD topo.

What can really speed things up - run out. With the easy climbing, I placed pro about every 30-45'.

I would not start the "traverse of the gods" to the north summit, and bail half way thru. This will make for an epic climb... enough said.

This route was quite fun. My wife and I simulclimbed it in three blocks. It had snowed 5 days prior to the climb, so the ledges still had snow on them, and there was water running down the face in some places which added to the fun factor. Overall the climbing remained very fun for the first 1000 feet, but the last 400 feet were kind of boring. The top 3 or 4 repels were also quite annoying because of the very low angled slab. I would recommend this climb because of the scenery and views from on it even though it is so easy.

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Long and fun, cruiser. 5.5?!? Maybe two moves. Simul'd in three blocks. Scrambled to N. Summit, ran out of water, descent sucked.

First Solo

I didn't have the best gear for making anchors when the rope ran out, so we would just simul-climb 'till I reached the next tree. A nice and easy climb with many variations possible.

first simulclimb

great morning solo in the early fall.

Bea-utiful climb with a view that gets better and better. We did a simulclimb with an 8mm x 30m rope. We usually had 2 to 4 pieces of gear out at a time and led about 4 pitches at a time, trading off when we ran out of slings (15 or so). We got to the top so quick that I was surprised when we ran out of rock (about 1.5 hours). We took a set of stoppers and 11 cams; Metolius 00 to 6 and green thru red Aliens.