Good Top Rope Routes to learn placing Pro

[grant862]

I want to practice placing pro and testing the pieces while being on the comfort of a top rope as a backup...can anyone recommend any areas/routes that would be good to setup a top rope and practice? Anything good around Exit 38 (preferable) or pretty much east of Wenatchee works as well?

 

Thanks

[Pete_H]

Tons of shit at 11worth. Look in the instruction manual.

[NateF]

At exit 32 there is a very short and easy route that takes gear in the British Aisles area, low 5th easy to protect. Opposite side of the gulley from that is a .10- crack with bolted anchor you can scramble to, goes from fingers to bigger.

There is also a bolted 5.9 at WWI that you could lead on the bolts then practice placing pro on. I guess it was assumed placements were not good quality and thus the bolts, but a lot of it seems pretty solid - you may get funny looks placing gear there. It starts just left of the .10c dihedral, before the ledge narrows.

At the little crag through the culvert off the Denny Creek exit there are a few short but quality low angle cracks, pretty sure you can walk to trees to set anchors. I think it's called Fun Forest?, see DCramer's Sky Valley book.

Those are the spots I'm aware of off I-90, I think there are a few routes that take gear at Exit38 but I'm not familiar with them.

 

[grant862]

Thanks for those routes on Exit 32. I'll probably check those out after work this comming week, but i think this weekend im heading out to Leavenworth this sunday...icicle road area.

Edited May 5, 2009 by grant862