boving/christensen route on prusik

[kevino]

Wondering if any of you have climbed this route...called the south face of west ridge in the brown beckey. Despite the long slog I find myself wanting to get back up there on the south face.

 

I believe this is the start dead center in the photo

[wayne]

Prussik has more than one face!!???

[olyclimber]

was rope gunned up there by Jeff Hansel a while back. Here is some pics of the terrain (look at the lower pictures, first pics are from the SB):

 

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=709317

 

Seems like there is a lot of "choose your own adventure". climbing is not as hard as i indicated in my gumby TR.

[Doug_Hutchinson]

Maybe on another peak or in another part of the range, this route would be maybe worth doing, but for Prusik, I found it very low quality. In the spring, we started up it after getting down off the superb Solid Gold. I only climbed p1 which was very dirty (like vegetated crack - similar to the crack below the climber in the last climbing pic in olyclimber's TR). This 5.9 felt almost as hard as the 10+ on Solid Gold since the cracks were filled with soil. The pitches above looked similar and the surrounding rock is covered with black lichen as opposed to the white and gold perfect granite on most of the rest of the south face. Once I got to the bail station at the top of the pitch and thought about more unaesthetic climbing above vs. getting back to the car before dark, the decision to to bail was easy. We were definitely pretty spoliled after Solid Gold but the Boving route is definitely not worth the walk in.