Western Harlot 5.9 4p all bolts

[bennygroundh20]

Conny Amelunxen, Alex Wigley, Jamie Chong and I made the FA of Western Harlot, 4-P 5.9 at the outpost today, Route/Approach details to come soon.
Ben Groundwater

[bennygroundh20]

Follow the link for route details, Approach as for Centurion and follow orange flagging trending right from the Centurion trail once in the upper part of the Talus Slope. Please be aware there is still potential for rockfall on this route, and it's respective Rappel line

We expect to trundle some rocks this week so heads up.
http://sendage.com/climb/western-harlot ... ish-canada

[natsdad]

Follow the link for route details, Approach as for Centurion and follow orange flagging trending right from the Centurion trail once in the upper part of the Talus Slope. Please be aware there is still potential for rockfall on this route, and it's respective Rappel line

We expect to trundle some rocks this week so heads up.
http://sendage.com/climb/western-harlot ... ish-canada

Hi Benny and team:

Thanks for good new route, We climbed Western Harlot yesterday and found it to be fun and well protected. Interesting moves on the second pitch.

Last pitch is only worth doing if you brought a lunch, which we did: the views were excellent.

cheers,
Steve

[natw]

Good job guys!

Super fun route. Had an all ladies team hit it up yesterday and had a blast.
Helmets are kind of a no brainer near the rock face...and especially while climbing. The crew did a great job clearing most of it though! Trail is well marked and straightforward. Once you hit the boulder field and get to the fork in the trail to get to the climb, Topo says " Following the rough trail aim for the gully on the right of the formation." ..." Continue along the base of the rock .."
So uh, don't do what we did and go up that gully ( even though it looks like a trail goes into it ). There's a smaller trail to the right of it..that's where you want to go. We added a ribbon to that little trail to make it a little more obvious.

Fun climbing and the view at the top is amazing!

[squamish climber]

I heard of a few online posts raving about this new moderate, multi-pitch. As noted the climb is on a feature called the Outpost just north of the Cheakamus parking lot. The Centurion is the other new climb here. Judging by the description for that climb this crag looks promising for future route development:

The Outpost has potential for hundreds of climbs including dozens of other multi-pitch routes. There are also some brilliant looking cracks and crazy bouldering.

Keep an eye out for future routes.



Alex Wigley leading the crux pitch, photo: Conny Amelunxen


Thanks Alex for the info and cheers to you and your friends for developing the route.
Check out Alex's ski mountaineering site Ski Theory. Beautiful shredding shots and solid info to be had here.