thelockdude's Logbook (11 ascents)

The opening move is fun – moving up past an overhang. Then it’s G climbing till the belay ledge, shared with Bitchy Virgin, but more to the left. There’s a small cedar tree on the ledge, and the route is to the left of the tree. But I made a mistake and belayed Josh & Deb up on the right side of the tree. We had to do another small traversing pitch to the correct belay station. That was more to my liking, because there was better pro to the left of the cedar. The second pitch also opens with a roof, and was harder to protect. Left me feeling quite nervous in several places, but I was able to complete the climb mostly happily. PG - R in some spots. The first moves of the second pitch, i.e. before the roof and before my 1st piece of pro, were really nice buckets – almost like the rungs on a ladder. Most of the climb was easy, just hard to protect. We tied the 2 ropes together and rapped down in one long rap. A lot of the rock seemed loose and / or hollow near the end of p2. I was reluctant to put cams behind it or even step on it in some spots.

Climbed this with my son. The first pitch was really fun – a dihedral with some G and some PG sections, but mostly G. The dihedral ends at a roof, and moving out from the dihedral onto the face provides some exciting exposure. The 1st belay ledge is shared with Funny Face and it is difficult to set up a good anchor – there is adequate pro but it is spread out wide. The second pitch was more difficult to protect and a little scary at times (maybe R?), but within my capacity to climb.

First pitch only - I led it and set up a TR.

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Tried to lead this the previous week with 4 others in tow: only got as far as the 1st pitch.

Came back and completed all 3 pitches with my son (9 years old) and a friend. My son cleaned the route.

A previous commenter said the crack is 5.9 and the face is 5.7. I've tried many times to climb the face and I can't, but I've climbed the crack several times.

I've *almost* done this climb clean. There is one piton near the top, I just keep having to stick my finger in...

5/5/07 - climbed without using the piton!

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I did this one a couple of times - first as a TR, later as a lead. It was fun!

This was my first lead - I led the second pitch (5.3) - I was terrified, but the pitch was short and easy, and I did fine! I later went back and led the whole route.

Climbed this with my 9 year old son following / cleaning...fun climb!