Sisyphus Summits, 5.10d

8th-9th Pitches- 50m- 5.10d/ A little miserable, particularly because if you run it this way, you past a perfectly huge comfortable ledge choosing a hanging belay instead, not to mention some serious rope drag. Again, like the other two hard pitches, the 8th pitch starts out hard from the belay. Make it up and through the hard hanging corner and the holds open up a bit. Eventually you find the large ledge, either skip some bolts clips here or double shoulder length sling them to avoid bad rope drag as you start up the 9th pitch. Fun and stout climbing over more featured ground finds you traversing back left to a tiny ledge with a hanging belay. Sisyphus Summits, 5.10d, 21 Pitches, North Face, Ha Ling Peak, Canmore, Alberta, August, 2009