Ascent Notes for: Jam on Jam - 5.5 Average Rating : 3.25/5

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top roped off turtle piss anchors.

Okay, but sort of awkward crack. Pretty easy hand jams, but the feet are weird.

This felt like the biggest mis-rate of my entire rock climbing career. I struggled up this climb like it was a 5.8-5.9. I don't climb cracks a whole lot, so maybe this would be cake for a good crack climber, so I'm not going to rate it up. Jam on Jam is a totally appropriate name. I climbed it without falls, but I used leg bars, arm bars, foot jams, hand jams, lay backs, anything I could. It was kind of fun, if you like pain (and my friends couldn't send it :)
We used our top rope from Turtle piss, which made for quite an angle on the belay rope; there are no anchors right at the top of this route.

I thought it was a pretty difficult 5.5... Fun route though.

I thought it was a pretty difficult 5.5... Fun route though.

Jam on Jam

Passive pro and go

I quickly learned that Arizona standards are stiffer than Washington, but this seems like a massive sandbag to me. After climbing this at 5.5, we didn't even look at the 5.9 on the other side.