Ascent Notes for: Hot Line - 5.10b Average Rating : 3.57/5

nice sustained climb

Me and manny made a morning out of this awesome line. Rests where you need them and hard in between. Remember your number 2s

I had done it years ago but it was a pleasure to see Austin onsight the route.

Phew....10b yeah right...old school for sure....lead up on perfect day.... not a pretty sight..had to hang dog and took a fall to boot.. awkward for sure....mandrakes description for gear is awesome....more like 10 plus....

Epic sort of describes this trip. Greg and I ended up splitting the route in two pitches after he took a huge 40 foot fall 20 feet above the crux. What a crazy experrience.

Well, what can I say, I got spanked and probably did the 100th French free ascent. This crack is tough. Hard to believe this gets a rating of 5.9. I had to backclean alot as I did not bring much of the bigger sizes.

It was hard, scary and fun! Greg Caruso and I made it to the top on 6/3/06

Tough route, but pretty much at my trad limit. Sustained. Except for a couple of rests, just about every move for the first hundred feet was 5.9 or harder. It protects well, which was good as I came off a couple times. If, like me, it's at your limit and you want to sew it up (there's some hollow rock down low, I keep the gear pretty close) take a double set of cams to #1 camalot, then four 2's and three 3's plus one #4. Save a #2 for the traverse at the top and then a 2 and a 3 for the upper crack.

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