My friend Moose standing beneath Frank's Wild Year...
Description
The leftmost of the three main lines, Frank's Wild Years climbs a crack just left of the prow to a pumpy rising hand traverse. This leads to a cramped rest in the corner, and then the crux -- a few campus moves on jugs. There is an unclippable fixed wire here that is designed to keep the rope out of the crack -- please do not remove it. Above this a no hands rest preceeds a final awkward lieback up slightly lower quality rock to a bolted anchor.
Protection
Double set of cams, wires, and a very small cam (blue Alien was almost too big) protects the crux well.
First half fun and weird. bit loose getting to the anchors, the route could have ended at the ledge. But I won't complain going another 15 feet over the awkward bulge.
By Wayne Crill From: an Altered State Apr 14, 2008 rating: 5.11
My understanding was that the inception, conception, and FA of this route was 100% Mr. Hankey.
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