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Routes: North America: United States: California: Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Valley: Royal Arches: Royal Arches

Super Slide popular Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty 5.9
  Safety Rating G
  Exposure
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  Scenery
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-06-12 (View Climbing Log)

5 out of 5 stars Crowds

3 Other parties were on this climb while we were on it, but it was still an awesome route! We free soloed the first pitch and I got to lead/combine pitch 3/4. It was an amazing climb from pitch 3 to the top with perfect cracks all the way up! An easy 5.9 with the crux just being the last 10 feet or so.

Added: 2012-06-14

Routes: North America: United States: California: Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Valley: Church Bowl: Church Bowl

Church Bowl Tree Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty 5.10b
  Safety Rating G
  Exposure
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-06-12 (View Climbing Log)

4 out of 5 stars Finger Crack Testing

Finger cracks are definitely my strong suit. The mini-ledge just under the bolts and the traverse left was the crux for me. Small holds with bad feet made it tricky but having clipped the anchor, there was no mental game on the move. Glad to have onsighted a my hardest trad route and to have it be in yosemite!

Added: 2012-06-14

Routes: North America: United States: California: Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Valley: Church Bowl: Church Bowl

Bishops Terrace popular Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty 5.8
  Safety Rating G
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-06-12 (View Climbing Log)

5 out of 5 stars Yosemite Cragging

The dragging here in yosemite keeps getting better and better... or at least stays super quality. Awesome route with a decently exposed and tricky finish up a wide hand/fist crack. Fairly hard 5.8 though.

Added: 2012-06-13

Routes: North America: United States: California: Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Valley: Church Bowl: Church Bowl

Church Bowl's Chimney Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty 5.6
  Safety Rating G
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-06-11 (View Climbing Log)

5 out of 5 stars 3D

Amazing 3D climbing on this route. Tons of gear options and a decent amount of positive holds throughout the chimney. My new favorite 5.6!

Added: 2012-06-13

Routes: North America: United States: California: Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Valley: Church Bowl: Church Bowl

Church bowl lieback Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty 5.8
  Safety Rating G
  Exposure
  Rock Quality
  Scenery
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-06-11 (View Climbing Log)

4 out of 5 stars Pumped

Made this one into a gear placement practice route for liebacks. Gets super pumpy placing gear every few feet but there were a handful of good rests up the route. Super quality crack!

Added: 2012-06-13

Routes: North America: United States: California: Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Valley: Church Bowl: Church Bowl

Uncle Fanny Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty 5.7
  Safety Rating G
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-06-11 (View Climbing Log)

2 out of 5 stars Hard 7 Face

Awkward chimney and then the 5.7 face move seemed pretty tricky to me. Didn't seem like a real quality climb to me, especially compared to some of the others in the area.

Added: 2012-06-13

Routes: North America: United States: Colorado: Front Range: Clear Creek bouldering: Tunnel 2 Boulder

Infinity Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty V1
  Safety Rating G
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-03-14 (View Climbing Log)

4 out of 5 stars Clear Creek Bouldering

Well there isn't much bouldering in the canyon but this was a fun problem to do in a cool little cave area. I didn't know any other problems so I just worked around the cave for the afternoon after doing this one.

Added: 2012-06-11

Routes: North America: United States: California: Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Valley: Manure Pile Buttress: Manure Pile Buttress

Nutcracker popular Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty 5.8
  Safety Rating G
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-06-10 (View Climbing Log)

5 out of 5 stars The Promised Land

First climb in Yosemite Valley! It is amazing here! Leading Pitch 1 was awesome doing the layback slightly runout. The holds are slim on the steepest section here and you don’t want to take away a hold with pro. That said I probably could have placed some pro by my feet once I passed it. Pitch 2 was fine but super easy. The climbing gets to be 5-star again right after it though. Pitch 3 was amazing jamming up the crack system. The way we did it, we had a long Pitch 4 to right under the “crux.” Being 5’10” the crux was super easy and seemed like a 5.6 maybe 5.7 move… It would be much harder for a shorter person. Great top-out with an awesome view.

Added: 2012-06-11

Routes: North America: United States: California: Yosemite National Park: Tuolumne Meadows: Fairview Dome: North Side

Fairview Dome Regular Route popular Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty 5.9
  Safety Rating G
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-06-09 (View Climbing Log)

5 out of 5 stars Longest Climb

This was a great climb that started hard and only got easier. We got the first four pitches a little mixed up belaying at the wrong spots, but in all did it in four jumbled short and long pitches. The first pitch was wet in a small section which made it the crux of the whole route. The next three we amazing, fairly sustained, 5.8 crack climbing. I almost missed the crescent ledge and went up to the heady looking roof above it. Getting back down to the ledge was definitely exciting! Pitches 5 and 6 weren’t too hard, but still had some fun moves. On Pitch 7, I pulled to 5.9 roof move at the pin. With a 70m rope, rope drag got to be a little too bad to simul so we did it in 2 long runout pitches and then a last short scramble to the top. The descent was a little scary as we went right toward a cairn and then found ourselves on a steep section at the edge of a huge cliff. Needless to say we traversed left and found a much easier descent route.

Added: 2012-06-11

Routes: North America: United States: California: Lake Tahoe: Lovers Leap: Main Wall

Corrugation Corner popular Average Rating = 0.00/5 Average Rating : 0.00/5

Ratings
  Difficulty 5.7
  Safety Rating G
  Exposure
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Onsight Onsight ascent by: jpjpjp on 2012-06-06 (View Climbing Log)

5 out of 5 stars Yose Preparation

Great climb! Stopped here on the way to Yosemite as a warm up area. The second pitch was amazing climbing up the exposed arête and led to and awesome belay ledge. Because we didn’t want to do the hike again to get our bags, we brought our packs on the climb. The only tricky part with the bags was the chimney. We hoisted them to just above the chimney move and then combined Pitch 3 and 4 for a runout finish.

Added: 2012-06-10

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