Home - Destinations - People - Partners - Forum - Photos - What's New
 ADVANCED
Aquarium Rock
Show routes:
Select route...
Conn Route 
Four Little Fishies 
Leaning Jowler 

Four Little Fishies 

5.9

   

FA: Bob Archbold
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.9+ [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 130 feet
Views: 934 page views

Submitted By: Brian Milhaupt on Aug 6, 2002


Add Photo  Add Comment 
You and this route  |  Other Opinions (13)
Your todo list:
Your stars:
Your rating: -none- [change]
Your ticklist: [add new tick]
 Printer Friendly View

Leading the first ascent of "Four Little Fishies" ...


Description 

A great straighforward sport route. Follow the trail from the parking area north, it will turn uphill towards the left side of Aquarium Rock. The route starts on the left side of the gully at the base of a slab. Scramble the slab to the first clip. Fire straight up the well-worn face past five or six bolts, followed by a long runout on easy low angle terrain with one horn to sling. A one 60m rappel from the backside. A short downclimb is necessary to reach the rappel bolts.


Protection 

6 draws, one long sling, a couple mid-size cams for the belay



Photos of Four Little Fishies Slideshow Add Photo
Jamie, Mike, Paula and Toni at the top of Four Little Fishes in 2001, I think.

Jamie, Mike, Paula and Toni at the top of Four Lit...

After the crux starting move on the way to the second bolt.

After the crux starting move on the way to the sec...

Contemplating the tricky moves left to the horizontal and the third bolt.

Contemplating the tricky moves left to the horizon...

At the jug at the bulge and the third bolt. It gets steeper here.

At the jug at the bulge and the third bolt. It get...

Starting the moves over the bulge and up to the last bolt.

Starting the moves over the bulge and up to the la...

On the low angle easy rock at the start of the 60 foot runout (it's way more than 30 feet). You can get some manky slings on crystals. There's also a small cam if you can find it, and I would have placed some decent nuts if I'd been carrying nuts. Or more likely you'll just run it out and not think about the potential ground fall.

On the low angle easy rock at the start of the 60 ...


Comments on Four Little Fishies Add Comment
Show which comments —
By Anonymous Coward
Nov 27, 2002

This route only has four bolts, hence the name.

By Anonymous Coward
Jul 26, 2004

A classic route that has good pro for the hard climbing. The big crystal that you could sling is very loose. It looks like you can place small TCUs and nuts at several spots along the runout.

By john walker
Jul 31, 2004

The route requires four draws, unless you want to skip any of the four bolts-you probably wont. Dont fall from the top, as I recall there is no gear the last 60 feet. If you want to spend more time than is necessary to look around you may find some gear between the last bolt and the top of aquarium. If you reach the point above the last bolt where it turns to easy climbing, just hike the rest of the route. the last 60 feet is 5.2 or 5.3 old school needles grade, confirmed by the anonymous coward and the LE (local expert) For more info on this or any other route contact the Anonymous Coward or the LE. Feather Buttress anyone?

By Anonymous Coward
Aug 3, 2004

I just climbed this route two days ago. I found at least ten places to loop runners in the run out section. Welcome to the Needles.

By joelhagan
From: Rapid City, SD
Oct 10, 2007

First ascent was by Bob Archbold, and I believe the actual name of the route is "Four Little Fishies" not "fishes"

By Casey Lems
From: Lakewood, CO
Jul 7, 2009

The runout is very long. I wasn't convinced the slings I looped were going to hold in a fall, but the climbing is very easy. Belay anchors are to the FAR FAR north east side of the rock (Back-right from where you climb).

Fun route, until the runout.