Stuuuuuuuck rope on Blueberry Hill

[tvashtarkatena]

blue grey 60m 10.5 on lowest pitch of Dark Rythm, just climbers Left of Blueberry Buttress. Mean little flake bit it. No time to retrieve. The uzh six pack of your choice for returning this thing - even if its pretty much ready for retirement.

[Off_White]

I thought I'd read you guys did Westward Ho!, what's your rope doing over there? Still, pretty lucky having that happen on the bottom pitch, makes it much more tempting to walk away.

 

[tvashtarkatena]

we opted for the butt instead of the ho (I'd done that one and the butt offers more varied climbing). OK route if you like slide cedar. Got our usual crack of noon start that day, so retrieval - which would have involved either shortpitching up Dark Rythm for 2 pitches on a doubled 7.8 or reclimbing the first 4 or 5 pitches of the butt and rapping back down, sans water. Neither were attractive options at that point -

 

Looks like part of lower Dark Rythm may have fallen off, BTW. Couldn't tell if any pro'd been taken out, but there's a big ole white scar, lots of newly smashed rock litter. A couple of bolts took big shots, apparently - they're a little deformed (none badly).

 

I'll get up there this season sometime to police it if nobody does me a solid and grabs it beforehand. If so, a certain tat festooned stump is going to take a quick trip earthward.

Edited August 8, 2013 by tvashtarkatena