Ascent Notes for: White Whale - 5.7 Average Rating : 3.83/5

Great route. I took the second pitch, and I was a long one.

I lead the first pitch - Crux - and the last pitch. Justin lead the middle pitch.
The last pitch was a bit of route finding and I ended up finding a face section with good holds just above my last good pro placement. This section ran out for a good 20 feet before the next available piece of pro. A bit scary but I just had to push through it to finish the climb. Not a good place to fall. It felt good despite the fall potential.

Fun

I lead 8+ in Eldo and I thought this was about as hard - maybe Eldo 8. Pretty run out in sections too, especially if you do the 3rd pitch of The Dog.

I think we did the first pitch of White Whale, 2nd pitch of The Dog and the 3rd pitch of Manifest Destiny. Fun warm up and good place to get used to Lumpy climbing.

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Somebody wrote "don't like slabs" and somebody else wrote "not memorable?"
You guys must be awfully spoiled. First of all, not a slab climb. Yes, it is not completely vertical, but the first pitch has a perfect lie-baack flake that last fopr may 50 feet--you go around a roof/left cornet to a belay ledge. Second pitch is almost a full rope length starting with another great lieback flake and then about a 90-foot hand crack stright up the face. This isn't slab climbing--slabs = smooth with no pro, and mostly friction climbing. This is all fantastic crack and flake climbing.

We liked the first two pitches so much, we did the easy 3rd pitch (left) to the paperback ledge, scrambled back down and did it again.

Had fun. First time doing a 3rd pitch. Very easy climbing.

nice climbing, though not memorable - good intro climb

Don't like slabs