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Direct North Face - 5.11a

Average Rating = 4.00/5 Average Rating : 4.00 out of 5
Route sequence (left to right): 1
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Consensus Ratings
  Difficulty 5.11a
  Safety Rating G
  Exposure 4.00/5
  Rock Quality 4.00/5
  Scenery 3.00/5
  Fun Factor 4.00/5

Description:

This route takes just about the most straight line possible up the Bastille. Incredible. It is a combination of the first pitch of Wide Country (11a), the third pitch of X-M (10c), and Outerspace (10c).

Submitted by: jsj42 on 2002-12-27
Views: 1150
Route ID: 19932

Ascent Note:

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Onsight Onsight ascent by: takeme on 2003-09-03 (View Climbing Log)

0 out of 5 stars Ascent Note

Great route. I led the first pitch, which was hard and scary for me, but fortunately never too much of either at exactly the same time, or something like that.

The one flaw of this route, on the first half anway, is that the Bastille Crack sits anywhere from 10-30 feet to your left, mocking your foolish decision to deliberately commit yourself to scary runouts and 5.11 face moves when you could be jamming a nice well-protected 5.8 hand crack!

Witnessed by: Pat
Added: 2003-09-03