Rehatch  5.5

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Type:  Trad, 2 pitches, 220 feet Consensus:  5.6 [details] FA:  unknown Submitted By:  Leo Paik on Mar 20, 2001 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (8) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Nils Albert on P2.

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An interesting route with E facing chimney and S facing face climbing. From NCAR, hike down to and up Bear Canyon to past Bear Creek Spire (1st strata), go up gully past Southern Dinosaur Egg, to Northern Dinosaur Egg. Find a prominent, E-facing chimney. The rating comes from the guidebook, which didn't seem so far off as to change it.

P1. Ascend this chimney (unusual for the Denver area), finding occasional jaunts out right of the chimney, pass a chockstone, and belay on a second chockstone (long pitch).

P2. Step across and move on to the R side of the S face via improbable looking face holds (crux) to the top (short pitch). 5.5+.

Descent: rappel from the anchor on top about 125' to the ground. A single 60m rope rap will leave you with some downclimbing. Rappelling from the top anchor may potentially leave a difficult rope pull. There is a 2nd anchor shortly below the top that can be utilized to reduce rope drag.

Protection 

Standard rack - wireds, set of cams to #4 Camalot, a few hexes.

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Nils Albert, P1 (correction).

John Saccardi follows the chimney section on 'Reha...