Ascent Notes for: 01. Aguja Celo Rey - 5.10b Average Rating : 4.45/5

This is *the* climb to do in El Portrero, especially if you can get a buddy to photograph you standing on top of the spire..and your buddy is high on one of the other walls. This is NOT too runout....and to the chump calling for retro bolting it? Dude. Take up knitting. If you are so wigged by not seeing a bolt every 6 feet, go back to the gym and give up sport climbing..and god HELP you if you decide you want to do trad. Idiots like that guy need to get out of the sport.

after pitch 2, stay on belay and scramble up to the very top of the spire.

no reason in the world not to put a bolt on that smooth face going over the keyhole. extreme run out, even though the climbing is not that difficult. problem is with 20 feet between bolts on that section it made me doubt where i was going and there is no view of the anchors to pitch one and I had already past the middle mark on the 70 m rope. so unless you've seconded before you'll never know where it is exactly you are going. i jumped over to the anchors on the adjacent 11a and we turned it into a short 3 pitch climb to be safe. come on, someone retro that 20 foot run out.

pitch 2, you still don't know where you are going since you cannot see the anchors on the south side of the spire. it was a little thin in 2 sections, but nice climbing.

The first pitch has very scary runouts...

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always a must-do when in the potrero

Great climb, great exposure

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fun

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