Ascent Notes for: Crack the Whip - 5.12a Average Rating : 4.00/5

It ate my face. Guidebook says 11d, which I would agree with.

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At the new river this thing would be 5.9.

a chill flash w/ good beta, fun, sustained shorty

Really cool, fun route.

yeah boy!!! it's official so i'm saying its a 12a ;)

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Lots of fun...the moves were hard but felt natural.

On 8/20/08 I wrote: Why, oh why am I not just a leeeeetle bit taller? Two moves-- that's all there is to it. I just cannot do a dyno-clip-move-crimp-dyno-to-a-crimp all together a sequence yet...Funny, even as I was struggling on it, I kept thinking that it is soft for a 5.12a. Until the 3rd bolt, there isn't anything interesting going on.


A few months later, it turns out that there are no dynos, after all, even for a shortie me, and half of the crimps can be skipped. The only thing that is still true is that it is a very soft 5.12a... but I'm glad I came back to it.