PRINT: Rock Climb Plum Pudding, Index

Plum Pudding

5.9, Trad, 70 ft (21 m),

Avg: 3.4 from 221 votes
FA: Ron Miller (1992)
Washington > Central-W Casca… > Skykomish Valley > Index > Middle Town Walls > Mid Wall

Description

This is an awesome layback climb up a right facing corner with finger sized gear. The climbing is fairly sustained, but a few small feet allow for rests and oportunities to place gear.

There is a fun corner to the right that you can TR from the anchors. That corner, PBR, checks in at around 5.10.

Location

This is the obvious right facing corner on the right side of the cliff.

Rappel with 1 rope from 2 bolt anchor

Protection

Protection to 0.5 camalot, with extras in the blue and yellow tcu size. There is a good 2 bolt anchor at the top.

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overview of the right side of mid town wall

Closing in on the anchors on Plum Pudding (5.9).

Plum Pudding

Looking down Plum Pudding. Bring enough 0.4's or yellow aliens to enjoy the top section.

The corner of Plum Pudding.

great stemming rest before beginning the layback fingers

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Matt Schonwald
Seattle, WA

The Cummins topo lists it as 5.10A, which I would agree it is harder, more sustained than Godzilla.

The upper half is the business with a 20' section of yellow/orange TCU or .3 & .4 camolots with limited feet. The last 15' eases off to the anchors. Oct 20, 2013

Ben Kunz

Great climb! Thanks to those who have cleaned these routes! I can imagine without enough traffic (which I'm pretty sure they don't get), these climbs get pretty dirty. Aug 27, 2014

Geoff Georges
Seattle, WA

5.8+

I don't think this is any harder then 5.9, and it would probably be 5.8 in Ca. May 16, 2015

Ben Kelley
Maple Falls, WA

geoff georges, I completely agree. It's so quality and so short that it could easily be 5.8. Jun 27, 2016

Zacks

Did not thing it was 10a (definatley not at index) with "gear to .5" i was expecting more variety of gear, had a hard time finding a place for a .3 never did fit a .5 but you could sew this up with .4s (BD) couple good rest stances made it easy to place nuts a few times Jul 17, 2016

Douglas Taylor

The route had a tree on it when Cummins put it in his guide (and when I first led it years later). Great warm up for the harder lines nearby. Gear to .5. You can also continue up from the anchor to the PBR anchor if you want to TR the best line on the Middle Wall. Gear to .75 Jun 11, 2018

Undocked Piggies
People's Republic of West M…

Nice rack is 3 of each .3 - .5 and then you can sew it up. I thought it felt easier than Princely and Godzilla. Jun 2, 2019

Adam Wood
seattle

youtu.be/i57ProN3-0c Aug 17, 2019

Serge S
Seattle, WA

A size between 0.4 and 0.5 (e.g. orange Metolius) seemed more useful than 0.5 on this. Aug 26, 2019

Geoff Georges
Seattle, WA

5.8+

Douglas, my friend insisted on removing the maple tree when I was working on PBR. Jan 21, 2020

Ben Bilbrough
Portland, OR

5.9

Going to bring 4x .4 up next time. Needed one more to sew up the final section, had to run it out, but solid layback locker climbing. Jun 22, 2021

Hangdog Hank
Leavenworth, WA

5.9

save all your .4s for the layback section after the stem rest at the beginning. I am pretty confident at the grade and I agree with other comments that 4x .4s is a good starting point for protecting the upper section of this climb. If you're short on .4s ask the party hanging doggin the folsom crux to borrow some, theres no .4s needed on that climb. Jul 26, 2021

aschmidt

Great route now that it's been cleaned up. Older guidebooks give FA credit to Ron Miller and Dan Waters 6/92. Aug 7, 2021

Simon Kent
Pittsburgh

Got what I believe is the FKT plum run at 43.42 seconds. Starting on the ground no hands on the rock and stopping when I slapped the chains. Jul 21, 2024

Tom Skoog
Seattle, WA

Sorry Pittsburgh, but this fkt is for locals only.
imgur.com/j3HJ9vZ
41.4s to the chains. Aug 14, 2024