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| bdynkin | April climb  Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2004 | |
| Low snow year so actually no big deal. Lakes were all frozen and very pretty. Started at 3pm and returned to car next day at 11pm. Climbing felt easy but altitude and route finding... | ||
| Posted Oct 14, 2009 4:37 pm | ||
| granjero | Pretty fun!!! | |
| Entertaining route | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2009 7:42 pm | ||
| brucelacroix | Good climb Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2009 | |
| Some loose rock. Much easier than Moon Goddess. | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2009 1:26 am | ||
| kevin trieu | supah! | |
| fun. will need to come back and lead it. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2008 1:11 am | ||
| Bonesaw | AWESOME SUMMIT! Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2008 | |
| Venusian Blind route in early June. Still a fair amount of snow, but not too bad. Great route and an even better summit. Very cool! Route was fairly long but not difficult. | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2008 8:49 pm | ||
| Romain | Fun climb Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2008 | |
| Climbed with 4 friends (Hector, Robert, Stephanie on one rope, Johann and I on the other). Met two other parties - Michelle (fossana) and Miguel (forjan), and two climbers from Bishop named Ira and Kimberly. The climb was fun but easier than I had expected - the ST 5.7 pitches felt like 5.6. The crux seemed the 5.6 left side traverse on P5. 12.5 hours camp to camp. | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2008 8:28 pm | ||
| forjan | Back with Tomb Raider Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2008 | |
| Free soloed with Michelle in 10 hrs 49 min car-to-car. Like Michelle said, it was quite busy on VB for a Wednesday. 7 other people on the route. Ran into Romain and Hector on SuperTopo's pitch 3. | |
| Posted Jun 26, 2008 12:28 pm | ||
| fossana | busy wed on vb Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2008 | |
| Soloed with Miguel as a day trip. Ran into Romain and friends en route and at the top of Contact Pass. Nine of us in total starting around the same time :( Miguel and I did a variation on loose rock to bypass the hordes. Agree with 2 SPers below that the route seemed more like 5.6. The scariest part was crossing the firm snowfield in the morning sans crampons with a sharp rock to self-arrest. | |
| Posted Jun 25, 2008 10:13 pm | ||
| Shirley Lam | Twice... Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006 | |
| First time, we were a bit off route and had to leave a cam in the wall...everything was so rotten! Staying on route the second time around was great. | |
| Posted Jan 30, 2008 10:29 pm | ||
| bighornmonkey | Done... Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006 | |
| I lead this route twice. Awesome! | |
| Posted Jan 14, 2008 6:53 pm | ||
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| jmc | Re: Good Climb, Loose Rock | |
| I agree about the loose rock, but mostly in places that were not steep so easy to avoid. I would not like to have a party directly above me though. | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2007 10:25 am | ||
| jmc | Fun and way easy Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2007 | |
| Based on the hardest single move, OK 5.7. Even though we intended to rope up at on the ledges, we freed the first eight pitches, nothing more than 5.4 until then. We used the chimney (not really part of the route, it's can be bypassed) to avoid the icey snow, that was harder than anything else on the route, but still 5.7. With only 3 hours on route, it left a little to be desired, but because of scattered rain, it was the right route for the day. It was fun, and it was a good climb, I will go back, we didn't tag the top of Temple Crag because of the weather. | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2007 10:20 am | ||
| Desert Solitaire | Good Climb, Loose Rock Date Climbed: Sep 17, 2007 | |
| Good climbing with my friend Brian E. Nice alpine feel to the whole climb, and the rating seemed a bit easier than 5.7. Plenty of options for belays and routefinding. The route does seem over-hyped, especially because of the abundance of loose rock on the route. Still recommend it to others however. : ] | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2007 6:55 pm | ||
| stoneman5 | good, but not that good . . . | |
| thought this was something of an overrated route, but that makes me disagree with Croft and McNamara and Moynier, and who ya gonna believe! But compared to, say, the East Face of Whitney, the rock and climbing both were significantly less interesting, I can't really recall doing more than one or two 5.7 moves in a row. That said, it is in a great location and has good alpine feel. | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2006 1:39 am | ||
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