Type: | Trad, 120 ft (36 m) |
FA: | Eric Pospesil, Mike Lee 2011 |
Page Views: | 1,267 total · 10/month |
Shared By: | Jeffrey LeCours on Sep 9, 2013 |
Admins: | Jay Knower, M Sprague, Lee Hansche, Jeffrey LeCours, Jonathan S, Robert Hall |
Description
The cliff's trail flattens out after Raven Groove and becomes more overgrown with occasional talus blocks. 75-100 ft right of Raven Groove is Wasabi Groove, distinguishable by a bolt on the right face of its crux corner about 30 ft up (photo). Raven Ridge starts down the trail from this and begins at a groove below the first bolt.
Walk the groove up (or mantle?) to get established on the slab and make your first clip. Follow the scoop of the slab up past a few more bolts to gain a nice ledge midway up the route. The slab eases up (and is a run out) up and follows a large left facing corner (potential small pro?) until the next bolt. Make a fun move over the corner out right and continue up to an anchor w/ carabiners.
A 60m rope will lower you into Wasabe Groove's corner where you'll probably need to scramble to get back to your pack. TIE KNOTS AT THE ROPE END
NOTE- When we rapped with a single 70m it didn't look like I'd have been happy with a 60m. ( It didn't look like we had 18 ft (5 m) left on each end.) Perhaps Jeffrey's 60m was a bit "long". In any event, tie knots and beware. R Hall 7/21/22
It looks like a second pitch could possibly lead up from here. The anchors give a nice view of the upper part of the cliff out left.
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