Well, It turns out that I’m not really Way Rambo (possibly petit Rambo?). This was an awesome, fun line. It’s got two hand traverses, and the first two-thirds of the climb is mostly a decent hand crack. The last third is the business — It’s green 0.75 Camalots for about 10 feet to a horizontal rail. A hand traverse across the rail (with pretty much no feet) gets you to a hand jam and another green Camalot placement. Phew! I had to hang and rearrange gear (and lower to get some more) on the hard section. I took one good fall from the far end of the rail, which turned out to be not scary at all!
Tad moving past the first traverse on Way Rambo (5.12-)
Enough words already. It’s long and boring, but if you want to watch a six minute video of me working the line, here it is, enjoy!
Rest day is done — it’s back to the ‘Creek tomorrow for two more days of climbing before heading somewhere else… Looks like Zion might be too hot, so destinations are in flux …
Ciao, – Tad
Dude, you’ll totatlly be ‘way rambo’ by the end of this trip! Sweet Line! Which part of the traverse was most tricky?
Danielle,
The hardest part of the traverse was figuring out how to establish myself out on the face, hanging from the fingers on the rail such that I could free up my left hand to get the jam. I got out to the end the first time and couldn’t figure out how to get into the jam, so I took a fall from there, and after that, realizing that it wasn’t scary, I really went for it the next try and sunk the jam, then the climb was in the bag!