On Friday, Nathan and I woke up early and headed to Cathedral Spires, which holds one of the best multipitch climbs in Colorado. It is called Wunsch's Dihedral, and heads up the beautiful dihedral on the left side of Cynical Pinnacle with four great pitches. We wanted to do a variation of the first pitch by taking this amazing finger crack left of the normal pitch but after whipping twice on my gear and wasting some time figuring beta out we decided to bail to the standard 10a pitch. Next, Nathan had a bad-ass lead on the third pitch and despite running out of hand size gear, ran it out to the anchors. I took the third and after aiding through the very awkward hand sized roof crack / chimney / layback (yes it is all of those in 10 feet), slowly moved up the amazing finger sized dihedral. After using all the hand sized gear in the first part of the pitch, I also had to run the end out to the anchors. The last pitch is a mid 5.12 slab, which we both aided through the crux moves off. Overall an awesome climb in an amazing area, but I would love to come back and do it all free.
A picture stolen off of Mountain Project of the splitter hand crack that is the second pitch.
No comments:
Post a Comment