Vertical-Life
Beacon Hill
230
ASCENTS
16 %
OS RATE
45
ROUTES IN DB
230
ASCENTS
16 %
OS RATE
45
ROUTES IN DB
| Name | Style | Route | Comment | Properties | Date | |
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| Lizard (7a+) |
16 Jan 2024
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| Moon Night Snake (6c) |
16 Jan 2024
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| Spitting Cobra (6b) |
16 Jan 2024
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| Lady First (8a+) | Fun little route. Hard to clip the bolts. It is basically just a V8 boulder problem. Old guidebook shows it finishing on the Anchor of the Project out LEFT (around the corner); the New Guidebook has been updated showing it finish RIGHT on the anchor or Angels Wing. I tried both ways and I agree it should finish on the RIGHT. Going Left is easier, less climbing, and will DESTROY your rope on the Arete. Staying Right at the top is slightly harder (still 6a. Very easy… after all the hard climbing is done), more direct and more fun and doesn’t destroy your rope. So definitely finish on the RIGHT anchor if you do this route. It’s also very sharp, so I suggest doing it in winter when it’s less than 21C! |
13 Dec 2023
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| Fun little route. Hard to clip the bolts. It is basically just a V8 boulder problem.
Old guidebook shows it finishing on the Anchor of the Project out LEFT (around the corner); the New Guidebook has been updated showing it finish RIGHT on the anchor or Angels Wing. I tried both ways and I agree it should finish on the RIGHT. Going Left is easier, less climbing, and will DESTROY your rope on the Arete. Staying Right at the top is slightly harder (still 6a. Very easy… after all the hard climbing is done), more direct and more fun and doesn’t destroy your rope. So definitely finish on the RIGHT anchor if you do this route. It’s also very sharp, so I suggest doing it in winter when it’s less than 21C! | ||||||
| Astro Boy (8a) | Cruxy. Video’s online show several people climb far LEFT (onto Peace Forever) at the bottom crux. I stayed RIGHT (directly up the bolts) as per the guidebook. This is much harder than traversing right (off route?). But more notably: at the TOP: videos online show several people staying FAR FAR left climbing up Lizard, to the finishing JUG on Lizard (big flake), and then instead of clipping the Lizard Anchor, they traverse across the top of the cliff 3 meters Right and clip the Anchor on Astro Boy. Sorry, but that’s not a legitimate ascent. I climbed it as per the guidebook: the crux is a hard travers RIGHT and then finish up the crux of Lizard Family, directly to the Astro Boy Anchor. It’s hard for the grade if you do it correctly. Soft if you go off-route way left and skip the crux at the top. (The Jug on Lizard is NOT part of Astro Boy… that is way way off route way out left far from the bolts). |
3 Dec 2023
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| Cruxy. Video’s online show several people climb far LEFT (onto Peace Forever) at the bottom crux. I stayed RIGHT (directly up the bolts) as per the guidebook. This is much harder than traversing right (off route?).
But more notably: at the TOP: videos online show several people staying FAR FAR left climbing up Lizard, to the finishing JUG on Lizard (big flake), and then instead of clipping the Lizard Anchor, they traverse across the top of the cliff 3 meters Right and clip the Anchor on Astro Boy. Sorry, but that’s not a legitimate ascent. I climbed it as per the guidebook: the crux is a hard travers RIGHT and then finish up the crux of Lizard Family, directly to the Astro Boy Anchor. It’s hard for the grade if you do it correctly. Soft if you go off-route way left and skip the crux at the top. (The Jug on Lizard is NOT part of Astro Boy… that is way way off route way out left far from the bolts). | ||||||
| Moon Night Snake (6c) |
29 Nov 2023
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| Blue Cross (6a+) |
29 Nov 2023
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| Spitting Cobra (6b) |
22 Nov 2023
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| Pretty Girl (6a) |
22 Nov 2023
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| Point Break (6b) |
7 Apr 2023
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| Lizard (7a+) |
11 Jan 2023
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| Peace Forever (7b) |
10 Jan 2022
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| Face to Face (7a) |
25 Sep 2021
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| Hardman (7b) |
28 Mar 2021
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| Stone Bird (8a) |
13 Jan 2021
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| Stone Bird (8a) | Probably would have onsighted it but my fingers were wrecked from Mission is Possible 15 minutes earlier. Route is a link-up that traverses across the wall. Kinda sketchy going from 3rd to 4th bolt. The bolts on the far right route are ghetto, and the anchors on this wall are shit. Should be replaced with new bolts and chains. |
24 Nov 2020
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| Probably would have onsighted it but my fingers were wrecked from Mission is Possible 15 minutes earlier.
Route is a link-up that traverses across the wall. Kinda sketchy going from 3rd to 4th bolt. The bolts on the far right route are ghetto, and the anchors on this wall are shit. Should be replaced with new bolts and chains. | ||||||
| Mission is Possible (8b) | Very sharp! Soft for the grade. Probably 8a+/b |
24 Nov 2020
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| Very sharp! Soft for the grade. Probably 8a+/b | ||||||
| Trouble (7a) |
15 Apr 2020
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| Mission is Possible (8a+) | No hands rest hence downgrade. |
24 Jan 2020
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| No hands rest hence downgrade. | ||||||
| Cat Ladder (6a) |
15 Jan 2020
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