Shere Khan 5.10+
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| Type: | Trad, Sport, Alpine, 80 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.10d [details] |
| FA: | Scott Carson & Andy Ross |
| New Route: | Yes |
| Submitted By: | apross on Oct 2, 2011 |
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Description Start up a small left facing corner, then face climb up and then left onto the arete. Some tricky moves back right leads you to a flake and then to the base of nice fingercrack. Up this to the anchor. Great climb, almost 4 stars.
Location Starts 20ft right of Monkey Fist on the front of the obvious orange buttress.
Protection Bolts. Yellow and small wire at start, blue between bolts 2 and 3. Red, black, yellow and double orange's for the upper crack. All cams Metolius.
Scott sending with style.
| The nice crack at the top.
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By Boissal From: Small Lake, UT Jul 2, 2012 rating: 5.10d
| Gritstone ethics on rhyolite? Expect minimalistic bolting on this one coupled with great rock and some of the coolest sequences in the Jungle. Oh, did I mention it was one of the longest lines around? The start is thin and intimidating, the climbing to first bolt being in the no-fall zone. Scamper up past a second bolt to a long section of discontinuous thin crack with unnerving gear (a bomber small nut is key) to two more bolts. The crux lurks there and seems to offer a few options to skirt a blank section. Latch onto the thank-Jeebus flake and you gain access to 30' or so of fingers to off-fingers crack to finish things off. While I'm reluctant to give 4 stars to two of Andy's routes that are within 100' of each other, the quality of the climbing makes it a no-brainer. |
By grk10vq Administrator Jul 2, 2012
| brilliant |
By apross Jul 5, 2012
| Thanks lads, glad you liked it, both Scott and I thought it could be 4 stars. Super route. Have to say, if we had used grit ethics there would have been bugger all bolts, so think yourselves lucky:) |
By Roy Suggett Jul 10, 2012
| Holy in-your-face-rock, Batman-Ross! VERY stout lead on this outstanding route. Thanks for your hard work down here. Can't wait to have you come back and add to The Jungle's repertoire. |
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