Bear Cub 5.7
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BETA PHOTO: Onsight of Bear Cub. Fun warm-up
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Description Bear Cub follow bolts up a featured face (crimps, edges, slopers) to a ledge with trees. Watch the start - you have to step down a touch to start the route, and you a looking down a steep gully to the base of Fine Line, etc - if you fall you will tumble a bit.
NOTE: Many people get this route mixed up with Bear Hunt; it isn't well-documented and the topo for Flakeview in the Selected Climbs guidebook is a mess. As noted above, Bear Cub starts at the left end of a small ledge where it drops off into a steep gully. Bear Hunt starts about 15' to the right, near the right end of the small ledge.
Location Located up on a ledge that is above and right of Fine Line and Drivin' and Cryin'; starts about 15' left of Bear Hunt.
Protection Bolts, rap tree (shared with Bear Hunt).
BETA PHOTO: Here's the slings at the top as of 19 JAN 2013
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By saxfiend
Administrator
From: Decatur, GA
Mar 10, 2008
rating: 5.7+
| I'm pretty sure the description above is actually for an un-named route just left of Bear Hunt. The real Bear Hunt has only one bolt about midway, as I recall, and starts on a more secure ledge instead of right at the top of the gully. This un-named one definitely has an exciting start and is a fun route. |
By Bryan Hall
From: Portland, Oregon
Dec 15, 2008
| This is not bear hunt. Bear hunt is farther to the right of this and has gear for the 1st 1/2 and 2 bolts to get you up to the ledge. |
By saxfiend
Administrator
From: Decatur, GA
Dec 15, 2008
rating: 5.7+
| This route has been updated based on information from the CCC website. The historic name of the route is Bear Cub. |
By ziggy
Nov 30, 2009
| Decent route, it's got a bolt everywhere you need one. Felt considerably harder than Bear Hunt. If Bear Hunt is a 5.7, then this thing is probably a 5.9. |
By Spri
Aug 14, 2010
rating: 5.8
| Definately worth doing, and gives you a chance to eye up the really nice .10a to the left of it. |
By Tom Gallo
Mar 6, 2011
| Sling the pine tree until you clip the first bolt to protect the fall down to Driving and Crying. |
By John91
Feb 26, 2013
| How many bolts are there? |
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