Vertical-Life
Fortress Wall
113
ASCENTS
50 %
OS RATE
21
ROUTES IN DB
113
ASCENTS
50 %
OS RATE
21
ROUTES IN DB
| Name | Style | Route | Comment | Properties | Date | |
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Date
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| Blue Runner (6a) |
26 Nov 2023
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| Calypso I (5a) | Got nervous and retreated, really struggled placing gear at the big flake part. Want to return and do this one. |
12 Nov 2023
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| Got nervous and retreated, really struggled placing gear at the big flake part. Want to return and do this one. | ||||||
| Snake (5b) | Kind of got smoked on this one and retreated. Want to practice placing gear more and get more confident it won't blow. Good route. |
12 Nov 2023
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| Kind of got smoked on this one and retreated. Want to practice placing gear more and get more confident it won't blow. Good route. | ||||||
| Calypso III (4a) | Led it but had a take. Fun line to practice placing gear |
12 Nov 2023
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| Led it but had a take. Fun line to practice placing gear | ||||||
| American Crack (3a) |
4 Nov 2023
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| Calypso I Direct (5c) |
4 Nov 2023
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| Calypso II (4a) |
4 Nov 2023
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| Bedtime for Bonzo (5a) | First true trad climb - lead 1st followed second. Amazing exposure! Felt harder than 5.6 but mostly because I was scared and have no idea how to jam... If only the second pitch was 100ft longer! |
29 Mar 2023
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| First true trad climb - lead 1st followed second. Amazing exposure! Felt harder than 5.6 but mostly because I was scared and have no idea how to jam... If only the second pitch was 100ft longer! | ||||||
| Blue Runner (5c) |
4 Mar 2023
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| Calypso I (5a) |
4 Mar 2023
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| Party Time (5a) |
2 Jun 2022
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| Party Time (5a) | Bitchin!!!! Dude!!! Bitchin!!! I did Party Time by headlamp on a warm fall evening with Mark. I like to feel safe on gear and so I brought a double rack with me from #0.5 to #4 as well as some smaller metolius offset cams (although I'm sure more seasoned trad leaders would place less gear than I did). I placed entirely cams on both pitches of this route. On the first pitch I placed mostly mid-size pieces from #1 to #3, and on the second pitch placed more of my #3s and #4s. For me, the general "difficulty" (for 5.7) came from stemming off of some smeared feet while also advancing hands up through the crack. I used a handful of fist jams and hand jams at the few spots when the face holds disappeared. The "crux" for me was a brief lieback section that led into a larger crack section (offwidth? sort of?) that didn't take gear, which I had to run out until I reached better holds. Nothing impossible though. While belaying from the 2nd anchor we had a full moon and could hear the wind through the trees. Note: we had a "chopped 70m" rope (so somewhere between 60m and 70m), and the rope did *NOT* get us to the ground for a rappel from the top, so we had to do two rappels. |
17 Nov 2021
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| Bitchin!!!! Dude!!! Bitchin!!!
I did Party Time by headlamp on a warm fall evening with Mark. I like to feel safe on gear and so I brought a double rack with me from #0.5 to #4 as well as some smaller metolius offset cams (although I'm sure more seasoned trad leaders would place less gear than I did). I placed entirely cams on both pitches of this route. On the first pitch I placed mostly mid-size pieces from #1 to #3, and on the second pitch placed more of my #3s and #4s.
For me, the general "difficulty" (for 5.7) came from stemming off of some smeared feet while also advancing hands up through the crack. I used a handful of fist jams and hand jams at the few spots when the face holds disappeared. The "crux" for me was a brief lieback section that led into a larger crack section (offwidth? sort of?) that didn't take gear, which I had to run out until I reached better holds. Nothing impossible though.
While belaying from the 2nd anchor we had a full moon and could hear the wind through the trees.
Note: we had a "chopped 70m" rope (so somewhere between 60m and 70m), and the rope did *NOT* get us to the ground for a rappel from the top, so we had to do two rappels. | ||||||
| Where Lizards Dare (5c) |
3 May 2021
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| Party Time (5a) |
13 Mar 2021
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| Bedtime for Bonzo (5a) | Classic for the red. |
13 Mar 2021
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| Classic for the red. | ||||||
| Bedtime for Bonzo (5a) | led P2 .. low key so worth the hype :p |
19 Dec 2020
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| led P2 .. low key so worth the hype :p | ||||||
| Party Time (5a) | led both pitches |
19 Dec 2020
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| led both pitches | ||||||
| Where Lizards Dare (5c+) |
22 Aug 2020
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| Calypso II (4b) |
22 Aug 2020
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| Calypso II (4a) | Old Grade of 5.2, what a sandbag haha |
2 Aug 2020
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| Old Grade of 5.2, what a sandbag haha |