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The Glass

woodzy | 17 October, 2005 00:58

Man I'm falling in love with Trad Climbing. Looking glass was an absolutely superb climbing spot. The North Face had some stiff routes, but the ones we did were amazing. The Multi-pitch South face the first day was fun but slowly became more of a chore to finish up the business of the route. The good parts were pretty much at the beginning and then you just run-out 70-80 feet at the end to get to a rap tree.


Routes hit up...

  • South Face
    • Second Coming
    • Rat's Ass
  • North Face
    • The Seal (first pitch, awesome corner overhang)
    • The Womb (first 2 pitches, full 60m rope)
    • Safari Jive (first Pitch, easy lead ;) )

No serious epics... other than my sport climbing shoes were waaay too uncomfortable and I delaminated them even more... damn rock on Rat's Ass first pitch was getting hot in the sun.


Good first Multipitch day. Very happy with the two routes I led... convinced me I needed to work on my smearing technique :) and trusting my trad gear... but I think it helped me get my head wrapped around it.

The run-outs at the end were not too scary but my poor second started thinking I was totally nuts... but I was sure happy he had water with him pretty much every time ;)

 
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