Ascent Notes for: Raise Hell - 5.8 Average Rating : 3.93/5

Good moderate.

Toward the end you can choose to either go left and top out early on low angle boringness, or go right and keep on the face until the tip top. Going right is enjoyable 5.7-ish climbing. So do that.

not bad, just a few moves that i had to grunt on and work through.

Short summary: Scratchy fist jams and several awkward rests but not overly difficult.

More detail:
Put in a piece standing on the boulder. A fall w/o it would be BAD.
I worked my way left a little later than some folks I've seen do on this and had a short connecting traverse about 10 feet below the first roof (starting at the orange bubbly looking rock). This avoided a thin crack and was fairly moderate. The first roof was awkward and I did take a sort of rest by a foot cam layback while I stuffed in some gear. Second roof is pretty easy if you are patient and find the feet. Awkward getting into and out of the large right+up trending crack visible from the ground.

Scratched up my hands pretty well from working the jams, rock is surprisingly sharp/velcroish considering the traffic this line gets. Will probably tape up next time. There were many vertical and horizontal cracks available for jamming. Used a lot of gear of all sizes, including a #5 (probably not necessary) at the second roof, although I concentrated mostly on cams .75 through 2. Pretty sustained but nothing terribly cruxy if you look carefully. Definitely some nice rests to be had, esp if you can jam well.

Seemed like a lot of work and I definitely felt like I was "engaged" by the climbing the whole route.

I lead this route and was impressed with how sustained it was. No super tuff moves in it, just a whole lot of sustained ones around 5.8+ or 5.9- maybe one or two 5.10 moves. But all and all a wonderfull route. I rocked the onsight but ran out a little far in the top area some placements there are so-so. Next time I do this route I will bring a pre-tied cor-de-lette for about 3 quarter of the way up. There is a huge horizontal finger looking extention Im going to sling. All and all one of the best 5.8 I have ever climbed.

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great climb despite the frozen fingers. put in 7 pieces before the roof...

Finally topped out and got the rope out. Now to do it clean.

Two falls at the second crux.

Great route, pretty damn pumpy. I kept expecting it to ease off, but it never did til near the top. The crux for me was getting established in the big crack above the thinner starting crack. Think I set a personal record for number of placements: 17 pieces (18 if you count the one I used to protect the start and then back-cleaned). I ran out of slings and had to break out my emergency prussiks to extend some placements.

Highly recommended for a solid 5.8 leader!

Someday... some freakin day in the near future I will get the red point. I've backed off twice now. After being defeated I followed somebody.. stout climb. Son of a gun I will tick it soon enough.