Concord Tower, South Face, East Side, Beta?

[octavius]

Has anybody here done this route? The CAG lists it as the easiest on Concord... but with 'devious' access. I scrambled up to the base of this route earlier this year with as a climb with a local club but we bailed... the start looked a lot harder than Becky described it (we did LB instead). After reading CAG again I'm wondering if we just didn't get over far enough to identify the true start of this route. Anybody?

[goatboy]

Done it. Kinda dumb. Lots of walking for some very mediocre climbing. Not recommended by me. Barely two pitches worth of silliness.

[AJScott]

Yea...not a stellar route...but if you climb n. face of lexington (another not so stellar route) it makes the approach a little more worthwhile. On the last pitch of the lexington might I suggest the big arching undercling at the end of the last pitch...really fun OW crack that you can see all the way through...so I guess its really a hugh flake. After the lieback, pull over a small roof and POP your on top! pretty fun for a short route. Rap off the N. Face of Concord for a route up LB and you got the TRIFECTA!

 

 

AJScott

[goatboy]

I prefer going the other way:

 

1) Liberty Bell via Beckey or Rapple Grapple

 

2) N Face Concord (Rap to South)

 

3) N Face Lex (Rap to South and descend scree)

 

This makes for 7 or 8 pitches of 5.6-ish climbing -- pretty fun link up!