Lycanthropia, Her Way
5.13a YDS 7c+ French 29 Ewbanks IX+ UIAA 29 ZA E6 6c British PG13
Type: | Trad, 80 ft (24 m) |
FA: | Kristen Fiore |
Page Views: | 394 total · 20/month |
Shared By: | Kristen Fiore on Oct 31, 2023 |
Admins: | Morgan Patterson, Kevin MudRat MacKenzie, Jim Lawyer |
Description
Lycanthropia is an overlooked climb with one flaw, a traverse into Drop, Fly, or Die. This variation skips the traverse, and replaces it with a fierce boulder problem.
At the horizontal break, place gear and fire directly up through the seam to the sloping "jug" below the next finger crack. Climb this to the hanging flake above and traverse right to the bolted anchor.
(While not much in the way of a "new" route, The Web has other variation pages here and this one felt significant enough to warrant it as it adds yet another 5.13 gear line to The Web's repertoire and in my opinion greatly improves the route character from the original line.)
The crux can be climbed as a runout or protected with a strenuously placed small cam, ballnut, or brassie.
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