Durrance Route Climber's Log

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Stickit - May 9, 2008 11:59 am Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2003

First Offwidth  Sucess!

My first experience with crack climbing. Steep learning curve (my turn to lead was the Durrance pitch). Great views and an awesome day.

usmcmars - Sep 20, 2007 10:57 pm Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2007

Did it in the Dark...  Sucess!

This is the 2nd time I climbed this with Frank. The first time (about a week ago), we got to the top at sunset. I took some amazing photos. Last night, we did it in 3 long pitches with 70 meter ropes. The sun was going down by the 2nd pitch. The 3rd pitch was done with headlamps.

I found that this climb was not as easy as I expected it to be, although it was an "easier" climb the second time around.

Ohhhhh, when I was climbing up the leaning column, the wind was just howling!

PS........Frank is cool:)

El_Capitan - Sep 28, 2006 3:09 pm Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2005

4th time?  Sucess!

Did the route for the 4th time I think? Always fun and the leaning column pitch is always tough. A lot tougher then the 5.6 (or 5.7 in some other books) rating. Definitely not for the new leader who think that 5.6 is a piece of cake. Not here on the tower. The easiest approach is to hike around the tower East on the trail till you are directly below the Durrance route. There is a set of viewing binoculars there. Go up from there and do the easy 5.5 ish pitch to the base. The other approach is to hike up and around the scree which takes a long time and is probably more dangerous.

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