Star Trekin'  5.10b

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Type:  Trad, 2 pitches, 200 feet Consensus:  5.10a/b [details] FA:  Jim Downs, Tom Howard - 1979 Season:  Spring-Fall Submitted By:  TomCaldwell on Jul 9, 2010 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (8) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

BETA PHOTO: Mary starting P1 of Star Trekkin'

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2013 Closure in effect MORE INFO >>> Effective January 2013, All areas between and including Tightrope and Bumblebee Buttress are closed due to local falcon population 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 2013 Closures MORE INFO >>> Big Lost Cove Cliffs are closed to climbing due to the local falcon population 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 

Start the route at a thin white tips crack on a blackish/brown slab. Slab up using slopers, crimps, and the crack. Make some technical moves through a bulge to a great stance below a small overhang. Plug gear and pull the crux at the overhang. Continue up above a block in the crack. Then make moves up and left onto a slopey ledge. Continue up and left to a left-facing corner (R, but easy). The pin protecting this traverse left as described in the NC Selected Guide no longer exists. Pull the corner to a great belay ledge and build a trad anchor.

Directly above the P1 corner is a white face with horizontals. Pull through the 9+ horizontals and get gear when you can. This section is slightly runout until you can pull onto the next large ledge, so be comfortable at the grade. Either belay on the ledge or continue up. The drag is not severe to continue as a single pitch. Several variations exist to exit the final wall. Move left on the ledge to the base of a small finger crack. This crack ends and more big juggy horizontals start. Follow these up to the base of a large roof and pull right around the roof. Belay above the roof and walk off left using a gravely trail. You reach the top after doing two easy moves over small sections of rock.

Most parties climb the P2 of Lost in Space, but it is worth finishing Star Trekkin' at least once.

Location 

As you hike to Middle Hawksbill, you come to a clearing on a flat rock. From the flat rock walk directly to the wall and a small ledge which starts the route at the thin white finger crack. This route is a 5-10 min. walk-off, so you may want to rack a pair of shoes. On the way down, look for a faint trail that leads off to the left, this is the fastest way to the base, or continue down the main trail and re-enter the same way originally.

Protection 

Single rack to #3 camalot, TCU's, Tri-cams, and ballnutz work very well.

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Mary starting the final overhanging section on Sta...