PRINT: Climb Hint of Lime, City of Rocks

Hint of Lime

V4, Boulder, 11 ft (3 m),

Avg: 1.3 from 4 votes
FA: unknown
Idaho > S Idaho > City of Rocks > City of Rocks B… > Campground 5-19… > Backside Band

Access Issue: (1) Weather Wall, Yellow Wall, & all the crags north of Twin Sisters are CLOSED. (2) No trash cans. (3) Highlining temporary ban in place for CIRO and CRSP Details

(1) The area, crags, and routes just north of the Twin Sisters are on private land and the landowner recently posted no trespassing notices at the gated road/trail to the area. Any access of these areas and routes is trespassing. The area was closed by the landowner due to trespassing, illegal camping, fires & trash, and disregard of owner's privacy.
Please be respectful of the land owner's wishes and do not climb or hike here until further notice. This includes White Lightning, Skinner Roof, Weather Wall, Yellow Wall, Larry's Annihilation, Needle Rock, Mississippi Fred's, and Secret Tom's. Park officials and CRAG are working to regain access to this valuable climbing resource. Be patient and check back for updates.
(2) No trash cans anywhere in City of Rocks: urlzs.com/c4eZH
(3) HIGHLINING IS PROHIBITED
By the authority of the park manager, Highlining at City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rocks State Park is temporarily prohibited as of August 28, 2019.

The park(s) is reviewing highlining activities. Here are Google Drive links to the closure and the updated Code of Regulations for CIRO. drive.google.com/open?id=1y… and drive.google.com/open?id=1Y…

Description

This is a short problem requiring serious body tension.

Sit start with your right side-pulling on a decent knob and a left gaston on an okay scoop. Stand up to another crappy gaston. Get your right out to an opposing gaston and transition your left across to match the same lip as your right. Reach wide right for a good hold above the roof. Continue to traverse right till you can find a good hold to hook, roll, and mantle out the finish.

The crux is getting into the double gaston and then getting your feet up for the transition to the match.

Location

As you walk along the west side of the rock formation behind the outhouse at Site C in the Practice Rock campgound, you'll pass an off-width crack and shortly after walk between a small boulder on your left and an overhanging rock formation on your right. Walk 15 more feet after that until you see a small tree against the rock wall. Look for a scoop feature under the roof; that scoop is the double gaston on Hint of Lime.

Protection

A pad. The lip on the roof is only 7 feet off the ground, but a high heel hook is the likely top out technique, so a pad under the top-out would be a good idea on the unlikely chance your hands blow after you've thrown the heel.

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at the lip of "Hint of Lime"

start of "Hint of Lime"

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Tan the Man
SLC, UT

There was chalk on the starting knob, so this has definitely been attempted before and very likely finished. If this has a name already and anyone cares, let me know and I'll change it. Not sure on the grade for this one because I didn't do the whole thing. I would guess it's at least a V4 based on the intense body tension needed to pull into a strenuous double gaston. Again, open to correction here. May 13, 2019