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Purblind Pillar - 5.8
Average Rating : 3.38 out of 5
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Route Summary | Ascent Notes (8)
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Joanne Urioste, Karl Wilcox
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Standard rack to 4", micro cams are good to have.
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Description:
Start about 30' right of the alcove where Healy's Haunted House begins at the obvious left facing dihedral. Pitch 1: Head up the dihedral to a sling belay. 5.7, 190' Pitch 2: Head up the cool looking flake until it ends, step right to a bolt, then head up to a ledge and belay. 5.8, 50' Pitch 3: Cross the ledge to the right and ascend the groove, stepping right when a bolt appears. Traverse right, then head up, stopping when a belay stance appears. 5.7, 120' Pitch 4: Head up the crack system above until it ends and cross the ledge to a two bolt belay. 5.7+, 150' Pitch 5: Head up the thin crack above and traverse directly right when possible to belay below an obvious left facing dihedral. 5.8, 150' Pitch 6: Climb the dihedral (and the face just left) to the summit. 5.7, 195'. Variation: Instead of traversing right halfway up Pitch 5, continue straight up to belay on a big ledge below an obvious crack in the varnished headwall. For the final pitch, work your way up to the base of the crack and climb it. 5.8/5.9, 100'Descent Options:
Descend by walking back to the gully and turning left, evenutally joining the Tunnelvision descent.
Submitted by: vegastradguy on 2007-03-21
Views: 2601
Route ID: 84350
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| Difficulty | 5.8 |
| Safety Rating | G |
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Onsight ascent by:
Magnificant route ...
basically sustained 5.7 with a couple short sections of 5.8. The 2nd bolt on the 3rd pitch is hard to see. Climb straight up from the 1st bolt about 15 ft, then move right on good edges - you'll see it. This allows you to link pitches 2 & 3. We took a #5 Camelot - takes some of the risk out of the wide pitches.
Added: 2014-11-23
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| Difficulty | 5.8 |
| Safety Rating | PG13 |
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Beautiful climb
Nice climb with a great variety. Chimney, crack and face up the center of the wall
Added: 2013-04-09
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| Safety Rating | G |
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Added: 2012-04-17
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| Difficulty | 5.8 |
| Safety Rating | R |
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First real multi-pitch with the fiance
Purblind is every bit as good as its neighbors to the left. Surely not a sustained 5.8, but there is enough run-out terrain to keep you engaged. I'd beef up your rack from the Handren guidebook recommends. A single rack of cams to four is a bit skimpy.
Added: 2010-11-06
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| Difficulty | 5.8 |
| Safety Rating | G |
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Pureblind Pillar
With Patrick from SP, our first climb together. I led the three 5.8 pitches including the 5.8-9 variation as described here. I was not impressed with this new route really. Did not find the climbing sustained and of course the rock was quite suspect. Not sure I consider this a worthy route to have developed. The first 5.8 pitch involves a traverse on white rock, little bit of a scary move to reach the bolt. The 2nd 5.8 pitch utilizes chicken heads to reach another bolt. Obviously these are not tried and tested as much as the ones at Lotta Balls, but the climbing is pretty easy. That last pitch variation looked a lot more attractive than the 5.6 finish. But in the end, was not as sustained as it looked. Mostly just an easy, kind of dirty 5.8 crack. Hard to protect the lower section crack with any viable piece, so you might call this pitch a tad run out I suppose.
Added: 2008-09-25
