Sol

Steep Finger cracks it's actually not finger cracks. the 11c pitch starts out with some devious, thought provoking, 11a slab climbing. this moves into the well-protected crux: vertical face climbing which tackles a small bulge. then to finish you crank a wild traversing bulge to the belay. great pitch with 3 unique cruxes.

whoa! it sucks they rap-bolted it. brooks not my buddy, all i knew of the face was a pic from an old metolius catalog. it looks so good, steep and hard, with impeccable rock, and amazing position. defenitly a lame ass name. hopefully you've climbed it, to warrant such a rabid opinion.

that's what i'm learning

thanks everyone. i agree, LMS rocks! i'd love to buy some approach shoes from them, but they don't have my size, and i need them by wednesday.

any recommendations?

my wife lost her chalkbag on serpentine a couple of weeks ago. figured with all the traffic up there somebody may have found it. holler.

too bad i work on the weekends. holler at me midweek: mon, wed, thurs. sol

i talked to brooke sandahl at metolius. it's called der sportsmen, and it's rated 12a. he highly recommended it, and is sending me a topo. ill post up when it arrives.

well, thankgod i didn't find a partner and spend the day dodging thunderstorms. the wifey and i are heading to nason if anyone wants to join...

bump it up

hey, my partner fell through and i'm looking to go climb one of these three objectives tomorrow (thursday). as long as you are up for the grades, and can make it to leavenworth, let's go crush. sol 360-927-1997

nice, that route's classic.

good try. your not the first to fail up there. next time.

what's up with it? where, how hard, style?

serpentine. met ty and chris on the summit, fun times.

...to brighten your day.

Nice! Was the roof traverse fully dry? How about the roof on the next pitch (free crux)? Thanks.

thanks everyone.

thanks counterfeit, that's about all i was looking for. how were the bugs?

Wondering if anyone was able to check out conditions on the e face of liberty bell this weekend (liberty crack, freedom rider, etc.) things have melted out pretty well around l-town, but i'm just not feeling so optomistic about the rest of the range. thanks.

That's right...didn't you do this last year? Nope, a couple years ago i did w face of balanced rock one day then south face of prusik the next, closest i've come to linking them up. I've always wanted to solo serpentine, but just haven't saddled up, nice job!

What a day of classic alpine rock! Killer.

there is no such thing