Holy Wall 5.10a
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| Type: | Sport, TR, 55 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.10- [details] |
| FA: | Burns, Fehlau |
| Season: | year round |
| Submitted By: | Jason Halladay on Apr 3, 2007 |
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Leading up Holy Wall in January 2007. Look at all ...
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Description An extremely pocketed and chalked-up face route with thin feet past the first bolt and nice, steep climbing above. Bolt line moves right-ish but the route can be climbed left of the bolt line at about the same grade.
Almost too many pockets to choose from!
Location The very obvious pocketed route with tons of chalked up holds. Shown as route number 12 on the Overlook route topo photo. Accessed by the easy scrambling on top of the Lower Buttress.
Protection 5 bolts to chain anchors. Note there are two sets of anchors for this climb--one can be accessed from the top for TRing and the other, lower chains, are used when leading.
Cody chalking up before sending the rest of Holy W...
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Marco, getting ready to climb Holy Wall for the fi...
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BETA PHOTO: The top part of the route.
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Marco Finishes
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Arno Ilgner Sampling the pockets.
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By caughtinside
From: Oakland CA
Apr 4, 2007
| this is a really fun warmup! However, it sees a lot of traffic, and feels really slick and greasy, so it feels insecure for the grade. |
By Jason Hundhausen
From: Bozeman, MT
Jul 2, 2007
rating: 5.10a
| This is one of those routes that gets dramatically easier the more you climb it. So many pockets--all of which are massively chalked up--make it a challenging onsight. An excellent route though! |
By George Perkins
From: Los Alamos, NM
Apr 5, 2010
rating: 5.10b
| Slightly easier if you use the crack to the left at the first crux (2nd to 3rd bolt), or a foot on the face left of that crack. One book says this reduces the rating to 5.9, though I think it's still probably 5.10- overall considering the pump at the sequency upper crux. |
By Jason Halladay
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From: Los Alamos, NM
Sep 29, 2010
| Earlier this summer someone used chalk to put a huge "X" above the fourth bolt. We checked it out last night. The bolt itself is fine but the hanger was an old thin SMC hanger. I replaced the hanger last night with a SS Pagan hanger. I tried hard to remove the chalk "X" but it's still visible. If you have a brush with you the next time you're on this route, please brush away that "X". |
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