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Ben Maxfield > Band M climb

This is a aid climb I started back in the fall of 1999 and hadn't got back on since then till this spring 2014. After some reroute navigation I've managed to finish this excellent A3 nail up for about a 80 ft. For the routes first pitch. The route is called Waiting for You 5.6 A3 and starts about 30ft left of Heavy Weather Sailing or just left of Standard Route @ a big broken block. P1. Aid a overhanging rivet ladder past loose flakes to a hangerless bolt , 2 fixed nuts starts the beautiful out left nail moves to the underlap flake"3-4 friends" at the bolt step back right on more nails and alien cams to a 5.6 exit move on bad rivets (sorry) and a loose block at your feet! Extreme care to be taken here, not hard climbing goes into a great pin and single bolt belay with a nice view. Pitch 2 is going to be this nice A2 crack above the belay which looks like it makes it's way up about 100ft then turns over a arĂȘte to another long vertical nail up but we shall see ? This climb is going to be a great steep nail up that's defiantly 3 pitches long . Still work to be done and the cliff has a off limits status so please be nice and get in with landowner permission and always pack out what you bring in !!! Me and my Girl stayed out for the night and collected a ton of trash together for another contractor bag clean up day. Plus the rock is very decomposed around this route , standard and mother of invention so always remember to nail light and watch for loose stuff .

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