Fork It (HVS) 5.11+
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| Type: | Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.11 [details] |
| FA: | Allen Hill, Scott Reynolds, 1981 |
| Submitted By: | Jesse Zacher on Mar 12, 2011 |
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Description Thin pinky jams from a Chinle band leads to a bigger size. Keep jamming up a widening crack as it gets steeper. You can get a hand in once in a while. When it gets steepest, it gets easier. It can be dirty.
Location This lies a hundred yards past Big Hands Roof and around the corner. It is the prominent, pale corner.
Protection Blue Metolius. Doubles maybe triples through fingers and #0.75. Doubles #1 and one #2.
Get up there.
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Looking up.
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The plaque.
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John Widerman laying it back on "Fork It".
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| Comments on Fork It (HVS) |
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By Dustin B
From: Steamboat
Mar 14, 2011
rating: 5.11
| Used to be a plaque here reading:
"Fork It" HVS (I think that's a British grade). |
By adam brink
From: Boulder, CO
Mar 14, 2011
| HVS means hard, very severe. Contrary to how it sounds, it translates to somewhere around 5.8 depending on the protection. |
By Allen Hill
From: FIve Points, Colorado and Pine
Mar 15, 2011
| This was climbed in 1981 Scott Reynolds and me. Stoppers only. |
By martinharris
From: Glenwood Springs CO
Apr 11, 2011
| Just wondering if this is a little easier than Rednekk or is it still a lot of baggy fingers? |
By slim
Apr 11, 2011
rating: 5.11b
| Very difficult to compare to Rednekk. For me, I would say this one might be a fair bit easier. Definitely way easier than Pump Station (I would say close to a number grade easier). This might be due to the fact that the average giraffe on roller skates is a helluva a lot better at liebacking than I am. The crux on Fork It is pretty brief, I usually jam instead of layback. I can kind of see the possibility of doing it on stoppers, at the start, but it would get grim pretty quick.... |
By Allen Hill
From: FIve Points, Colorado and Pine
May 24, 2011
| I'm not suggesting it was less than grim, Slim. I was 17 years old. Death wasn't much on the radar in those days. Thought I could survive anything. |
By Jesse Zacher
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From: Grand Junction, Co
Feb 6, 2012
| Anchors have been spruced up. Courtesy of ASCA. |
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