SquidRoute Grade Votings
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A tough roof crack. Start beneath the right wall of the roofed central bay at a diagonal crack. USER COMMENTS
1st pitch is harder than 4c and the second is almost ungradeable! the accepted way of doing the second pitch seems to be to traverse right from the belay until you can move up and wedge yourself into a niche then come back all the way left to the Ritz roof (with rope drag pulling you back as you go) - moving straight up from the belay looks very hard and blank. the technical crux is the traverse right off the belay - the rest of it will just wear you out physically and psychologically! a nice route for contortionists!
Did this free back in 1977 when it was more commonly aided. Remember finding it very hard but very glad to get established in the little niche over the overhang. My companion, Chris Massey, was unfortunately killed on Mt McKinley a few years later. |