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- Statistics:
- Date Hiked: August 20,
2010
- Miles Hiked: 2.0
- Elevation Gain: 1,500'
- Hiking Partner(s): Jeff Shafer
- Description:
- I tried to have Mark Cushman take me up Rewritten in Eldorado Canyon last
year, but there were several parties waiting at the base of the route
when we arrived, so we went up the Yellow Spur instead. We showed
up around 9:00 at the base of Rewritten and were surprised that no one was around. Jeff led
up The Great Zot start (5.8) and I followed cleanly until I couldn't get
one of his cams out after pulling the crux roof. I hung and
retrieved
his purple cam then continued up to his belay. I ended up keeping
the second pitch interesting by taking a direct line to the huge eyebolt
that followed a blank arête to the Red Ledge with at least one 5.7 move.
I stayed on lead and climbed the left-facing dihedral (5.6) to a great
belay station near the hand traverse. Jeff easily led across the
5.7 hand traverse on the crux pitch and clipped some fixed gear up the
hand crack on pitch 4 to the steeper and exposed hand crack above.
After getting through the crux, he belayed my up from a comfortable tree
anchor. The hand traverse and lower half of the vertical section
of the pitch was relatively easy for me to follow, but I struggled with
the upper hand crack and was fairly upset when I reached the belay
because I didn't think it should have been that difficult for me.
I finished our climb on the easy final 5.5 summit pitch. I led
three of the five pitches, but Jeff had the hard ones and deserves the
credit for getting us up this route. I'm the
belay slave and he's the rope gun.
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