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Lower Falls Amphitheatre 


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Lower Yosemite Falls Ampitheatre.Photo By Blitzo.

Description 

This area offers some fine climbing on beautiful rock, only climbable during low water.
"Guiding Light", "Lightweight Guides", "Powerslave", and "Ten Years After" are a few good climbs in the area.Occational rockfall does exist.


Getting There 

From the left side of the bridge, continue through the boulders on the left of Yosemite Creek.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Lower Falls Amphitheatre:
Super Hands   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Guiding Light   5.10a     Trad   
Lightweight Guides   5.10a     Trad   
Blackout   5.10+     Trad, 1 pitch, 135 feet   
Ten Years After   5.10d     Trad, 1 pitch   
Dagger   5.10d     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
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Featured Route For Lower Falls Amphitheatre
The route follows the obvious corner system in the center of the photo. The first part is protected by two bolts.

Dagger 5.10d  CA : Yosemite National Park : ... : Lower Falls Amphitheatre
Dagger is the striking line to the left of Super hands. Climb past two bolts to enter the corner system/ chimney. Thin hands and stemming with an occasional chimney move will get you to a two bolted anchor. The climbing felt very sustained at 5.10+ the entire way. You can rappel with a single sixty meter rope but you’ll have to down climb for about five feet....[more]   Browse More Classics in CA


Photos of Lower Falls Amphitheatre Slideshow Add Photo
Lower Yosemite Falls during low water. <br />Photo by Blitzo.

Lower Yosemite Falls during low water.
Photo by Bl...

"Dagger". <br />Photo by Blitzo.

"Dagger".
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"Cisco". <br />Photo by Blitzo.

"Cisco".
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Climbing in the Amphitheatre. <br />Photo by Blitzo.

Climbing in the Amphitheatre.
Photo by Blitzo.


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By Bryan G
From: Yosemite
Oct 14, 2012

On the wall to the left of 10 Years After is an hourglass shaped flake that's about 70ft tall. I noticed a bolted anchor with tat at the top of the right side of it, and thought it looked cool, so decided to climb it. In addition to it being a fairly difficult and scary lead, I also discovered that the bolted anchor is just two extremely rusted 1/4"ers. It can't even be backed up, unless you want to leave a 2" cam in sort of bad rock a couple feet below the anchor. I survived lowering off the bolts, but I wouldn't recommend going up there unless you have a bolt kit.