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Ascent Notes for: Fifth Sister - Going the Wong Way - 5.7 Average Rating : 4.00/5
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Onsight ascent by: Superpedro on 2011-05-01
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Good climbing in the sisters
Approach: Just after the reservoir there is a climb trail: do NOT take it, it leads to another area. 20m after, there is another climbing trail indicated that even says: Sister climbing this way. :D Continue the trail up to the end of it, passing all the sisters, leaving them on your left. Just before that, check out the large crack: this is it!
Climb: 5.3 very easy up to the tree, with no pro up to 2m before the tree, then nuts + then sling the tree possible.
3 bolts are on the face climb, which makes it well protected. However, I couldn't see the 2nd bolt (which would make that part of the climb R or X) so I was hesitant to go. I did go and only saw the 2nd bolt when I had my hand on it (almost literally). The 3rd bolt was obvious from the 1st one.
Then it is easy, walk around the bulky rock/notch to climb it from behind to belay from the large dead tree very comfortably (Didn't see any of the belay bolts mentioned in the topo).
Descent: Walk back to the large ground area, then take right, as close as possible to the climbing route, you can enter a sort of horizontal chimney and downclimb/scramble through it easily.
Climb: 5.3 very easy up to the tree, with no pro up to 2m before the tree, then nuts + then sling the tree possible.
3 bolts are on the face climb, which makes it well protected. However, I couldn't see the 2nd bolt (which would make that part of the climb R or X) so I was hesitant to go. I did go and only saw the 2nd bolt when I had my hand on it (almost literally). The 3rd bolt was obvious from the 1st one.
Then it is easy, walk around the bulky rock/notch to climb it from behind to belay from the large dead tree very comfortably (Didn't see any of the belay bolts mentioned in the topo).
Descent: Walk back to the large ground area, then take right, as close as possible to the climbing route, you can enter a sort of horizontal chimney and downclimb/scramble through it easily.
Added: 2011-05-01