Chinle Spire (N. Face)
5.9 YDS 5c French 17 Ewbanks VI UIAA 17 ZA HVS 5a British C2
Avg: 1.3 from 3 votes
Type: | Trad, Aid, 300 ft (91 m), 4 pitches, Grade III |
FA: | Fred Beckey, Eric Bjornstad |
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Shared By: | Todd Gordon on May 14, 2007 |
Admins: | Greg Opland, Brian Boyd, JJ Schlick, Kemper Brightman, Luke Bertelsen |
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Access Issue: Closed.
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It is presently illigal to climb on the Navajo Indian Reservation. These climbs are listed here for historical purposes only.
Description
This is a very cool and skinny spire in a very wonderful place. The climbing is a bit dicey. Pitch one;....climb up a slanting ramp with a crack . (5.9) Pitch 2; Climb 5.6 face and hop on a bolt ladder of various "things" bounded into drilled holes;...in the holes are bolts, pitons, and various hardware devices;....a hodgepodge of metal.There is a short crack section in this pitch;...then back to the bolts. Pitch 3; a whole pitch of (You guessed it...) more bolts. Pitch 4 starts with a 5.8 crack, which soon is A1, then a couple of bolts, then a section of really dicey soft/rotten rock ; this be the A4 section, I believe. The rappell from the summit was from a 6 mm cord rapped around the summit, backed up by a piton hammered into a hole......(Best bring some extra rope or a really really long sling to back this up. Rap from top to 3....three to 1, and one to ground.
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