Went up Citadel way with the intention of doing a little climbing and refurbishing the anchor on the Sentry.
I removed the rotten nylon and fitted equalized rappel chains - but they would only facilitate an awkward rappel down a rotten face to a tree/shrub enema and would not facilitate the TR setup properly. The TR could easily be accomplished with a couple biners and sliding/magic X combined with the directional bolt. I doubt anyone will ever set that up again. I decided not to waste the metal.
I put an extra screwlink on the single anchor bolt to facilitate a rappel or belayed downclimb back down the 5.5 route.
In retrospect - since the hanger already puts the screwlink and the rope in the proper orientation - I should not have added this link - no harm done - just a waste of metal/money.
Single anchor bolt on The Sentry with an added screwlink
JC leads the Sentry
This was the best part of the climb
We left the Sentry and scrambled around to the back of the Citadel
That didn't feel like 4th class to me - no doubt another one of those where someone climbed it without a rope ages ago so it had to be 4th class...
This was more like it - kind of reminded me of The Lamb - Citadel Class Four
I trailed the rope in case Kat wanted it
Kat thought she would want a rope but she ended up free soloing after me
We met a couple youngsters up top - Eric and Robert - they were kind enough to let us rap first (instead of going back down the "walk off".
Fun day with a little more free soloing and socializing on the way out
