Osprey  5.6 PG13

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Type:  Trad, 3 pitches, 170 feet Consensus:  5.6 [details] FA:  Hugh Dougher and Henry McMahon Submitted By:  Ross Purnell on Apr 28, 2009 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (6) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Peregrine Falcon Closure Lifted MORE INFO >>> As of June 12, 2013 Mt. Minsi cliff is reopened to climbing. The temporary climbing closure that was in effect for Mt. Minsi on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area has been lifted. The resident peregrines failed to nest and will likely not try to nest again this year. The closure will likely be re-implemented in January 2014. For more information contact: Allan Ambler Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Division of Resource Management and Science 294 Old Milford Road Milford, PA 18337 Phone (570) 296-6952 x 22 This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund, and Mountain Project. You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment

Description 

Pitch 1: Climb up easy terrain (5.2-5.4) to an obvious belay ledge below an indent with a small overhang. There is a rap station on this belay station.

Pitch 2: Climb up and left through the indent (crux) up past a roof with a crack in the middle of it it. The last time I was there, there was a blue Tri-cam stuck in the crack below this first roof, do not belay here. Pull the roof and then belay on the small sloping ledge below the next roof.

Pitch 3: Pull the roof directly over the belay (crux) then move past two easier roofs. At the top of the climb there is a huge roof that you skirt underneath to the left and finish on a dirty, loose ledge with a good tree (Same as Heroine Hypnosis).

Location 

Hike the Blue Trail and arrive at the Practice Face. Turn left and follow the cliff for about 100-150 yards. The climbs Osprey and Heroine Hypnosis are just after the point where you make a 4th class scramble up to a high point along the path. Osprey is on the left, HH is on the right.

Two 60M ropes will take you to the bottom.

Protection 

Good protection. Use long slings to avoid rope drag on the roofs.

Has bolts and rings at the top.

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Detail of climber making the first moves off of th...	Looking down from a belay above the first crux. O...	Scott coming down after climbing Osprey. For the ...