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Midnight Rider
Description
This is a good route on a fun tower in an really beautiful setting. All four pitches are engaging. The crux is hard and spooky but can be aided.
Pitch One Climb the obvious crack up a shallow right facing corner to a few moves on dubious rock through a horizontal band and a two piton anchor. 5.10
Pitch Two Ascend the beautiful corner above the belay. 5.11 R
Pitch Three Climb past a couple angles to a corner and then make some awkward moves left under a large flake. The RC Utah book says to avoid this way as there is a death flake but I didnt find it that scary so perhaps there was another flake that has fallen. To avoid the flake the book says to face climb left at 5.9+ to a corner that is followed to the anchor. 5.10
Pitch Four Face climb past several angles to the summit. 5.9
Rappel from the summit to the top of the third pitch and then to the top of the first pitch.
Protection
A double set of cams to #3 Camalot with many extras from Black Alien to .4 Camalot. A set of nuts. Screamers.
Routes in The Witch
- 1Midnight Rider5.11+Trad