I went to the crag on Sunday, nice day, -20 but calm. I was able to finish putting in the lead bolts across the short traverse under the roof to the chain anchors (hangers in pic number 2). The traverse is thin but there. The line that leads straight up the same anchors has a hard start, delicate moves on very small pick holds, popped off the lower part numerous times. This brings to number of bolted lead routes to 3, and total number of mixed routes to 8. Not bad, these are very probably the only sport bolted mixed routes in the NT at all. As far as mixed routes in general, the Cirque of the Unclimbables or there about obviously has mixed lines and nothing in Inuvik will ever compare to that, lol.
Just some quick shots due to the need to be a bit efficient climbing since it’s light a 11:30 and dark at 4:09 PM. The hanging rope is my set up for top roping. I rap down to the midway ledge where the directional bolts then rap a bit further to tie the rope off to the anchors, to prevent catastrophic abrasion, then weight the rope with a coil to facilitate the jumar moving along the rope. The rope is lying along the harder line.
The whole thing is reversed when I do the route, hence the pics from the half way ledge.
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