shaggy125
08-04-2008, 11:05 PM
Just thought I would throw up a quick TR from today Although this won't be a big deal to anyone but me. My buddy and I climbed our first multi-pitch climb ever and wow, it was super cool. It was a fully bolted route up Maple Canyon but was a great intro into more advanced climbing... now I just need to learn how to place trad gear. I didn't take my camera up since it was just the two of us and it's too much of a pain to take pics when you are worrying about belaying and sorting gear so sorry. I can add a link to someone else's pics along with beta for the route:
http://greatbasinseeds.com/shop/media/pdf/exitwound.pdf
Basically the first pitch was 90 feet to a wide ledge with a 4 foot wide gap dropping 15-20 feet between the ledge and the next wall. You have your buddy put you on belay then do a wide airy stem out to the next clip, clip your draw and then clip the rope and breath a sigh of relief, it's a pretty fun move, then it's a short climb to a third ledge and the final crux pitch to the top. We pretty much read a book on how to belay on each pitch, practiced it a bit beforehand and then decided if we ever didn't feel safe we'd turn around and go back, but things went really smooth, I always felt both of us would be good to go even if one of us took a big fall, and we both climb pretty comfortably on 5.9's (the routes grade, although I'd probably call the third pitch 5.9+). Super fun route mainly because of the wide stem move at the beginning of the second pitch. Very cool stuff.
http://greatbasinseeds.com/shop/media/pdf/exitwound.pdf
Basically the first pitch was 90 feet to a wide ledge with a 4 foot wide gap dropping 15-20 feet between the ledge and the next wall. You have your buddy put you on belay then do a wide airy stem out to the next clip, clip your draw and then clip the rope and breath a sigh of relief, it's a pretty fun move, then it's a short climb to a third ledge and the final crux pitch to the top. We pretty much read a book on how to belay on each pitch, practiced it a bit beforehand and then decided if we ever didn't feel safe we'd turn around and go back, but things went really smooth, I always felt both of us would be good to go even if one of us took a big fall, and we both climb pretty comfortably on 5.9's (the routes grade, although I'd probably call the third pitch 5.9+). Super fun route mainly because of the wide stem move at the beginning of the second pitch. Very cool stuff.