Trad Climbing in Smith Rock - Zebra Zion (Pitch 3)

Extreme Slab Climbing
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1 Video View·Jan 2, 2024
5.9 may be a bit of a stretch for this pitch. The traverse was 9ish (and the collest part) but the rest of it was far more mellow. However, combine this pitch with the ones before and after it, and you really have a magnificent climb.
MP Link: https://www.mountainproject.com/route/105790290/zion
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yeah i can kind of see i think where the traverse is and i'll try to avoid the birds
all right so you are you're on top and left very good yeah well that's a nice big flake
yeah this one down here was yeah this thing's massive like right there it's probably a good
spot oh wow that's really uh yeah there's some flares too there we go where are you at i knew
i saw you it's like honestly it's just sort of nerve-wracking i don't know why i think like
i've grown such so weary of this rock and just like crumbling under my feet yeah i know i don't
know why that wasn't an issue last year when i was here yeah well not nearly as much as well it
doesn't help when i climbing a lot with uh alan and chris amazing climbers but they're just
developing a lot of you know brand new stuff so it hasn't gotten a lot of traffic yet yeah and
it just like getting on that stuff and you're sort of cleaning it up for everybody the masses
later on in its history by the way hank wall phenomenal place
just saying i should go up a little higher you could take a solstice and know you know
there's a whole ton of people do this route all the time so they probably cleaned it up for
pretty well for me i hate when it does that i really do a fear three slide
when i got the right size that was the one harness i had it did not do that
and i got one too big and it did do it and
just bothers me i think i can get a point for me you are the equivalent
no yes
yep i mean like yeah they're jagged oh i'm sorry guys that is a weird sound
i don't know if you can hear that or not hopefully you're not bats please don't be
i don't i can try to go off that let me get in if you're birds i'm sorry if you're bats i'm sorry
please don't bite me rabies where are the vaccines how much they cost me that thing is nice
that gives you a little confidence hey just a warning there's something right here that's like
screaming at me oh you'll hear it yeah i guess i don't know i don't want to stick my hand in there
i don't know what's gonna freaking get myself into all right well supposedly as easy as this
is gonna be it is sketchy supposedly do you know the pitch ends after the traverse
yeah there's a set of anchors right there um when i get to those i'll check the uh
yeah consult the guide yesterday sure
it's cool though there's change change the bottom of that flake i might just
keep going up to the flake yeah all right i'm gonna keep going up
yeah that must be the top of something else that's fun
still not really a good spot to plug here i can probably get a nut somewhere in here but
this is easy enough they're dirty
plug something right there yeah boy that's even kind of small i don't think i do yeah i don't
think i do no and not will not work there i'm sure if i fiddle with it long enough i can make
one work but or i could just move right up there i know the masses will argue with me on that one
come on supposedly there's these things will hold with that not like that but whatever
this gets into that like way easy terrain then where you just sort of get lost climbing and
plug gear it's a thing why don't slip into it don't break it off yeah stop swearing rock
rock like that that was seriously right there wasn't that bad but flares that flare
yeah well that looks pretty freaking cool getting psyched
ah please stop with the swinging
a little little run out shame on me no lie though this is like probably five six kilometers
yes i think it is not that that's an excuse it really isn't
okay this is what i was handed from this got to figure out an anchor i think we can do it
or rather i know i can do it probably just do a sliding axe or i can tie a bite one or the other
yes okay see i could just put a twist clip it that would work um i'm kind of a fan of just
doing that grand this isn't my uh all right where's you
what's cozy oh someone had a bad day let me think here yeah that's probably good
yeah we're gonna go with that hey leo off belay sweet
