Crazy Diamond WI4+
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| Type: | Trad, Ice, 2 pitches, Grade II |
| Consensus: | WI4+ [details] |
| FA: | 1970 - something |
| Season: | Winter |
| Submitted By: | Nik Gualco on Feb 22, 2010 |
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Crazy Diamond
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Description Climb the first moderate pitch (WI3) to a good stance. Attack the upper section (WI4+). The top column does not always come in. This is one of the shorter climbs at Lake Willoughby, as well as one of the more moderate.
Location Located just left of the Tablets.
Protection Ice screws. Rap the route. Bring gear for v-threads.
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By Luc
From: Montreal
Mar 23, 2013
| FA: John Imbrie & Clint Cummins, December 27, 1977 |
By Ted Sumers
Apr 9, 2013
rating: WI4-5
| i think 4+ is a huge sandbag, even for willoughby! i climbed this in thin(ish) conditions; lead the first pitch (would give it wi4) and followed the second (easily wi5, maybe 5+). i'd followed glass menagerie a few days earlier and think this was substantially harder-- while glass menagerie had more sustained steep ice, it was also stemmable, whereas the crux pillar on diamond was super thin, straight vertical, and marginally protectable at best. |
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