Hades  5.13a

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Type:  Trad, 2 pitches, 220 feet Consensus:  5.12+ [details] FA:  Tobin Sorenson, et al. - 1970s FFA P1: Kevin Powell, Darrell Hensel - 1980 P2: John Long, Bob Gaines - 1984 Submitted By:  Darrell Hensel on Jul 10, 2008 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (3) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

John Long on the first pitch, 1984.

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Description 

Brilliant climbing on impeccable rock. Definitely stands out for it's quality, variety, and difficulty. Unusual (for Suicide) face climbing that follows a flake system on pitch one, with a extremely hard crux sequence on pitch two.

Pitch 1: After the first bolt (quite high - 5.9) do a few hard (10d) moves to gain the base of the corner/flake system that arches up and right. Pass two more bolts in the corner. The second bolt protects moves (12a) that are the crux of the pitch before more good climbing leads to the bolt at the top of the arch. Clip this bolt and move left (11b) then up into the 10a corner. Belay at the bolts. Superb climbing/quality pitch.

Pitch 2: Clip a bolt and make moves (11c) up to and over a small roof. Clip another bolt and prepare for a powerful, steep, reachy, desperate crux sequence moving up and right to the good hold. Easy from the end of the crux. Both of the bolts on this pitch can be difficult to clip because they were placed on the aid FA. There may, or may not, be slings in place to facilitate free climbing clips. This pitch may be a little height dependent - the taller the better. Hard pitch with good climbing in a great location.

There is a two anchor to the left of the end of the second pitch. An 80' rappel reaches back to the belay at the end of pitch one.

Location 

About 40' right of Archangel, at the low point of the South Face proper.

Protection 

Bolts and thin gear.