Ascent Notes for: Chicken Bone Left - 5.7 Average Rating : 4.28/5

This is really a blast to climb. Great to warm up on! It's not hard but it's got good moves not just dumb jugs the whole way or anything like that. Good exposure!

Very easy, but fun, fast paced climb.

Started raining about halfway up... almost bailed and ran for the car, but it got sunny again in about a few minutes... fun climb...

This route seems to be easy for most, but it was tough for me, I had problems getting past the first ledge about 20ft up. Then there is another ledge about 10ft from the top rope point that I struggled with as well. I couldn't find decent holds. Fun route none the less. I can't wait to go back and try it.

this route was really fun...i liked it a lot. I really got to work on my footwork ,etc. and use what I have learned...

I didn't fall or hang on this route! :)

Well, after two more, still with backing down and standing but no hanging, the first flash ascent ending last year's climbing was not a "flash in the pan". The hardest part (if we do not say "crux" for 5.7) is definitely between the early left flake and the ledge. There is a little finger pocket I have to get, with a painful finger-nail flake, to reach the halelujah jug to pull up to the ledge. Jeff Dillon's advice about doing it as a slab climb is top-most in my mind across that portion: smearing is all you can do with your feet. Also, there is a dinner-plate flake we all depend on that is getting looser. The rest is becoming a romp, by comparison, except for the last few moves: I cannot yet finish under the rings, I have to fake left, or easier right.

You know, it's the same view as from the parking lot overlook; but after the climb, somehow it's a lot better.

NC

One of my favirote top ropes at Pilot. This climb is to the right(?) of Vegomatic. Fairly long climb, 60M rope required.

NC

Ben and Nate were here from Chapel Hill, first visit. They chose before leaving this longest 5.7 at Pilot, and the hardest top-rope 5.7 imo, with too small and sharp or rounded crimps in too many places with too little for feet to be "just" 5.7. Nice left-side flake, very nice ledges, no serious overhang; but serious vertical, three crux problems, and no relief at the top for how easy that might have looked. Ben and Nate say: you need very good balance for this one.
If you do this 5.7 climb, you are safely within 5.7 climbing ability, imo.