A Date with Dale

Why is it that when the climbing is hard the route is really well protected? Is it because 5.10 is damned easy you can run it out?

I was greatly relieved when I found most of the bolts and hangers to be SS. There are a few that are rusty steel.

This is a great route, I could not climb parts of it ( the 5.12 crux ) but it is really cool.

You go straight up a blank slab to a roof, traverse right to a dyke/seam (12b ), follow line of bolts, and as Cramer says- Dyno.

Upper slab is fun- book says it is 11c.

left side of wall.

The lower slab start was very mossy, the upper half stays pretty dry and only needed thick lichen scrubbed.

12 bolts, I think 3 were rusty steel and the anchor????? is rusty steel, but I found a nice SS bolted anchor about 10' higher up.