Tomorrow will be two weeks since Kat and I did this route.
Zay has asked about it a couple times over the last year or so - so hopefully he is still watching.
I too have been curious about it and have been eyeballing it from afar since we did several of the other old routes on the formation.
clink has regaled me repeatedly with tales of the time he and Geoff climbed it back in the day - before cams were available.
All right, all right - enough already. What route you say?
Proclamation Pinnacle - North Summit Crack 5.7In brief - the route description says climb 60 feet up a crack to a ledge - then traverse the ledge to an unprotected 100 foot chimney.
Use stoppers and a double set of cams to 4 inches. Hmmmmm...
You have to wonder why you need all that gear for 60 feet?
Go climb the route and you'll find out.
I placed about 15 pieces on the first pitch and three at the anchor.
I took a #6 too - just in case the chimney squeezed down enough to be protectable at some point. I ended up using it on the first pitch.
The route from a distance
Why you can't see the bottom of the route from a distance. Looking down from the base of the route to west side parking, the parking lot is completely obscured.
The first pitch from below (standing back a bit). It's the classic "looks easy from here". It's not.
Looking up the chimney from directly below. That's right - the green you see is a massive thicket of PO
Time to get on the sharp end.
Having lunch on The Can after the route (sorry - no pictures of the chimney).
There is a lot more to the story.
Suffice it to say, I woke up in the middle of the night afterwards feeling glad to be alive.
