angels crest pitch 6

[avit]

You mean the pitch that starts with the steep blocks where you step around to the right? McLane guidebook has it as pitch 5... I guess you're counting the tree scramble as pitch 1.

I was just up there last week and didn't notice it. That crack is in a corner with a wall on the left, so I'm assuming whatever you're talking about is steep.

Did you climb it? Is it good?

[NateDoggOG]

We didn't climb it so much as aid it...... it was steep and had the slightest overhang...... I'd give it at minimum 10d..... maybe 11-.
I didn't think it was that good, but then we also didn't climb the original pitch.
It was also a bit of an epic to get there, so our heads weren't in the right place by the time we actually started climbing.

[BlahMatt]

Did it by accident my second time up AC (forgot the topo and went the wrong way). Didn't seem super hard but definitely awkward. 10c/d maybe.

[Lurch]

You guys talking about this pitch?




Angle of this photo is a little funny. I flipped it, this is the original.



I haven't been up there this year so i can't remember. The chief is obviously right side up in the second one but the pitch looks weird?

Thanks to Brad for taking the photo and Kyle for giving me a copy of it.

Mike

[gnarnaphobe]

ahem, i actually took the photo, so brad can beat it

[Lurch]

Sorry Luke I was told different.
So then your actually the person to ask what up with the angle?

Mike

[NateDoggOG]

The first picture has the proper angle.