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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Yeah boyz! Way to send! Tis the season apparently.
Scott
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Send... where did you put PICs on MP??? Trip report? CRS page? I looked but could not locate.
THX
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Just because Munge likes to look at himself in his old "blue jump suit".....
https://vimeo.com/36141941
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Record to CtoC on the Spire is 27 hours by D.Hickey and A. Degoode
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Hey Rene, what's David up to these days? Need to find time to get out with you, Bruce and David.
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Send
Trad climber
Central Sierra
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Guy, yeah the pics are on the mp Reg Rt page.
Photos by Chad N.
And that approach kicked my ass like no other.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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A worthy summit. I dare sau that CRS may be the hardest summit in California.
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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Lost Arrow....?
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Ok, so reading Vitaliy's earlier TR, did he do it in a day? Upper or lower? He makes the approach sound casual. I get one good climbing with the dudes weekend a year, and perhaps sooner is better than later.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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According to Secor....Its the Hardest Summit in the Sierra by the easiest route.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Booya!
And I hear Vitaliy still has part of a tick in him from this weekend so you guys got the full lower approach experience!
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Lost Arrow....?
Guessing you haven't tackled the CRS/Fin lower approach. Get back with me when you combine the approach to the actual climbing. Most say the crux of the whole deal is the approach!
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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As a freeclimb the Arrow is 12b....approach is arbitrary.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Someone hasn't been humbled yet. :) Again, let me know when you do Castle Rock Spire.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Lost Arrow is 5.9 A1 with a relatively easy approach, CRS is 5.9 A2 with a strenuous approach.
Enuf said.
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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MountainProject says A2.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Ha! Well then MP must be correct, in an alternate universe. Lost Arrow is almost A0. But what do I know, I have only climbed it 5 or 6 times. Surely the folks on MP know better. 🤣
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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"You gotta get a lotion, a Calamine lotion"
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Lost Arrow counts as a summit? I'm admittedly bias because I love CRS but I never really thought of something as a summit if the most popular route is a tyrolean from the main (and higher) formation.
Lost Arrow is 5.9 A1 with a relatively easy approach, CRS is 5.9 A2 with a strenuous approach.
Enuf said.
Crap, I've also always argued that CRS is the most difficult summit to reach in the Sierra by its easiest route, but now there's the East Face that can be done at C1 (or free at 5.11). I know nothing about aid grades, is solid cams in a nice crack C1? I don't think anyone has actually aided it, just french freed it.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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1. Darth Vader tower is a harder summit compared to CRS in my opinion. A more heinous bushwhacking, longer distance and mandatory 5.10a R (likely x). Go get the second ascent brajz!
2. Direct East Face is a more difficult route compared to the Regular Route. A lot harder and a lot better by quality if one is into difficult crack climbing. On the regular route there is one 5.11 pitch which is hard through a relatively short section. Aside from that 5.11 boulder problem that pitch is 5.10. Rest of the route is 5.9 and below. Direct east face on the other hand has one 5.10 pitch and two 5.11 pitches that are both more sustained compared to the crux of the regular route (which is C1 also by the way, if you use aid).
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