scottynewton's Logbook (8 ascents)

I put this climb in, but did not send it until a season later.
The route starts with a bouldery overhang requiring a good spotter unless you cheat from the left and traverse into it. The final move is a dyno to a horizontal flat hand crack then pull to the anchor. Solid face climbing. Who ever rated it 11.c was accurate.

Fun climb. I have not had a lot of practice with offwidth crack climbing so I found pitch 4 the most challenging....ie had to use the bolt at one point. Pitch one and two are the highlights of this climb, real gem crack pitches. The belay for pitch 4 needs to be lowered from its current location to the lower angle portion of rock approx ten feet below due to the potential fall hazard right on to your belayer not to mention for comfort reasons. It is a nervy pitch when your climbing steep rock right on top of your belayer. When you get past that scare you find there is a bit of a run out to the tricky offwidth.

Excellent climb. Lots of variation. Requires antoher bolt beyond crack (near the bottom)as you make your way across a diagnolly traversing slab move to a bolt. I had to grab the bolt in fear of a big swing if I slipped on the dirty slab. No balls no glory!!! JJ

Geart low grade Squamish style Crack!

Excellent route!

Climbed it with my silent partner, as I could not find anybody to climb with. Nice and cruisy.

Needs a couple more pitches to take you to the top at harder grade.

Nice views and sounds of seals from the Skeena.

Great climb, long day on the wall and a brutel stinging nettle bushwhack but well worth it. Great views ~ had an excellent climb

First ascent on pitches 1 & 3 free.

Had to hang dog on the first bolt of the 2nd pitch - offset and overhanging - very pumpy.

The wall gets pretty dirty beyond the third pitch. The route ends there for now.

Route was put in over the course of 5-6 years with a lot of time gaps by Travis Sanwald (Squamish), Todd Newton(Kitimat), Scott McLellan (Smithers), and myself of course Scott Newton of Kitimat.

The chain was used on the traverse on the 2nd pitch as a safety measure to prevent a rope tearing fall.