Ascent Notes for: North Face a.k.a. Wyrick/Merrill C1 5.8 - 5.8 A1 popular Average Rating : 2.67/5

Fun times, shitty rock.

Well, I can say that I was excited to get to the top, and that's about it. Muddy, loose, with quarter inch bolts and wingnuts spread throughout. The summit is fantastic, though.

It took us basically three days to climb this with a group of three. The first day we drove up at almost two and due to the lateness and inability to find a trail to get there we decided to go the next day. The next day we took several hours finding how to get there a first time aid leader in there first time in the desert made a good effort on three quarters of the first pitch and just couldn't physically continue so they lowered off and I finished the first pitch. We fixed the first pitch and decided to come back the next day. The next day we came out and ascended to the first belay where I found one of the four fixed pieces moving. After the second got there I led off and crammed the crack full of gear before coming to the section of "5.4" free climbing where I ran it out for a good thirty feet to the some barely cammed #3's (bring a #4). Then I ran it out another 60 ft. to the natural belay anchor. Another bit of scrambling and I was at the first decent bolted anchor. Then I rapped off that into the notch and did some more run out free climbing to the final summit cap. Gnarly! Then I set up a tyrolean traverse for the other two. Then I got to rap back into the notch and ascend the fixed line back to the good anchor where we rapped in the dark. Wild route...very dirty, probably good intro to the Fisher's but I haven't been there yet.