Ascent Notes for: Middle Earth - 5.5 Average Rating : 3.86/5

love this climb. P1 is super nice and then the roof on P3 is great. climbed with Nate- i led and he followed.

First two pitches.

Only led p1, but what a nice route

Good 5.5 climb with a nice first and third pitch!!

ALthough face climbing (down low) is my weakest skill, I enjoyed leading this climb. It protected well and thought that the moves were easy (other than one face move near the bottom, but before the parallel cracks).

We finished P3 on Bombs Away Dream Baby. Reachy crux for this shorty, but very fun. Needs more climbers, as it was pretty dirty.

Awesome Sauce.

Nice three pitch climb. Third lead at the Gunks. Climbed with Andy. First on the climb of the day. Got very crowded. Third pitch overhang was the hardest section. Followed the guide book and climbed to the right on the third pitch. Must have been wrong. It was covered in lichen and slippery as hell. I guess I took a wrong turn. Rappel took FOREVER. Cool Climb and the longest I have lead thus far.

climbed with seth. i led pitches 1 and 2 and he led pitch 3.

This was a great climb, maybe next time I'll do it when it's not a holiday weekend. Dick says to finish by going right to a cedar tree, which we did, but it was real dirty and there was no chalk on the rock. looks like everybody is going more left to finish at the rap anchor.

dd