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Direct North Face - 5.11a

Average Rating = 4.00/5 Average Rating : 4.00 out of 5
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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: 1147
Route ID: 19932

7 Ascents Recorded

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  Difficulty 5.11a
  Safety Rating G
  Exposure
  Rock Quality
  Scenery
  Fun Factor
Onsight Onsight ascent by: lumpy on 2007-01-20 (View Climbing Log)

4 out of 5 stars good route

this has always felt more like .11b to me, others find it easy, who knows

Added: 2007-01-20

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Onsight Onsight ascent by: the_crawler on 2004-05-11 (View Climbing Log)

0 out of 5 stars Ascent Note

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Added: 2004-05-11

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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

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Red Point Red Point ascent by: on_sight_man on 2002-09-13 (View Climbing Log)

0 out of 5 stars Ascent Note

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Added: 2002-09-13

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Hang Dog Hang Dog ascent by: jsj42 on 2002-07-01 (View Climbing Log)

0 out of 5 stars Ascent Note

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Added: 2002-07-01

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