New Route Left of Playing Hooky in CCC?

Hey - does anyone have any information on the new(ish) line just left of Playing Hooky? I say newish because I think I saw some bolts there last year, but don't recall it being finished. We didn't have a chance to jump on it yesterday, but it looks like a lot of fun. Guessing 5.9 or 5.10? Thanks for the addition whoever put it up.

Oh yeah, and ticks are out in full force over there. I think we had 13 of the little buggers between us. They are even at the belays - probably from other climbers flicking them off!

I put the first few bolts in on that "route"( like 10+ years ago). At the time I was hand drilling and gave up after the first few. The route is ok ( I toproped it) it's very low 5.10. Several people have contacted me over the years about it, I told them all that it was open to anyone wanting to finish it. I'll probably never finish it.

josh

I think Dave finished it -- Creekafixion @ .11

Don't know if that's what Erika is looking at, if there's a another line in.

No, not Creekafixion, this one goes from the ground.

Josh, someone has finished it as 2 pitches to the huge ledge. I'm sure you can do it as a single pitch with a 70 since it pretty much parallels the other line.

Thanks for the info, I'll have to check it out. It will be nice to have another moderate option over there.

I was pondering that route, too, when we were there today.

It looks very fun!

I found a tic crawling on my arm on the way home, as well. I had to pull over and kill him (he was off of me, but if I just left him in the car I'm sure he'd find the dog eventually).

Those little vampires are hard to kill! I squished it with a pointed rock several times, and it still kept trying to crawl away! At least he was flat as a pancake: he hasn't had a meal yet. I eventually gave up trying to kill it and just picked it up off the carpet and tossed him outside.

Oh, you mean left of Solid Gold P1-P3?

Hooky is just a finish pitch on that slab off to the right

Yeah, it's really just to the right of P1 of Solid Gold. Bolts seem pretty shiny, but that could be my imagination. It starts from the ground.

ErikaNW wrote:Oh yeah, and ticks are out in full force over there. I think we had 13 of the little buggers between us. They are even at the belays - probably from other climbers flicking them off!

Darn it, I meant left, not right, of P1 of Solid Gold.

Buff Johnson wrote:Oh, you mean left of Solid Gold P1-P3? Hooky is just a finish pitch on that slab off to the right

I did that route the other day and agreed that its 5.10ish. Pretty clean rock and big shiny bolts. The bolting is a bit more spaced than the solid gold start. Cool little bulge early on to climb through. No idea on the name or who finished it though. Super nice to have an alternate start to bypass the p 1-3 bottle neck there!

ps. I couldn't quite lower from the first anchors with a 70m, but it only needs maybe 15 feet of easy down-climbing.