Rituals and magic.

[Brad Young]

This thread should become relevant again....

[TJMoynagh]

Kudos to the teams that put up Meanderthal and Rituals and Magic. We climbed them both a few Sundays ago and could not be more stoked to find such a grand chimneying adventure at the Pinnacles!!! I thought the ratings were right on and most of the rock was pretty solid, even better after the removal of some pesky moss. The route description for R & M was spot on as well - no topo required.

Keep putting up these awesome routes!!

Todd










Thanks JC for the photo tips!

[Brad Young]

Both routes in one day. Impressive, Todd and Justin. It's no wonder that Bob and I saw you hiking out by moonlight too (although you'd at least broken down and gotten your headlamps out...).

Keep repeating the new routes and giving feedback!

[mynameismud]

Very nice first post. 

[NOAL]

Clink and Aaron really found a gem.  Nice to see someone climbing the new routes! 

[F4?]

where is it?/

[Brad Young]

Pinnacles.

[F4?]

wonderful

any general area in particular?

[JC w KC redux]

wonderful
any general area in particular?

New routes list
564.24  Rituals and Magic  5.9 **

[F4?]

Getting closer.....where is the new route list.

Has the route been soloed?

Just PM me....

[JC w KC redux]

Thanks JC for the photo tips!

No problem.
I see it worked 

[Brad Young]

Todd, nice job with reformatting the photos. Sounds like you had near professional help    Good photos too.

Posting them the first/ weird way did at least follow in the footsteps of a MudnCrud wanna be legend.

[Gavin]

Nice Todd - glad to hear you two are enjoying some of the new routes at the park!

[JC w KC redux]

Posting them the first/ weird way did at least follow in the footsteps of a MudnCrud wanna be legend.

Ahem. The dude is a legend - and he has threatened to take a lesson from the professorial help but has yet to follow through.

[Zay]

Elliott and I climbed Rituals and Magic yesterday. It was a blast. We got lost on the approach, right after the 40 ft of 3rd-4th class boulders...

Placed one black totem twice, and a #4 once. Didnt see many other good options for gear.

Having done feather canyon before saved the day, when we almost committed ourselves to the wrong (meanderthal?) Gulley... then i noticed the massive flake that makes feather canyon's second pitch.

The route was overall a more serious endeavor than feather canyon IMO. More chimneys, loose rock, the crux chimneys were a good (albeit short) grunt.

Total time on route was 2.5 hours.

High praise for the adventurous spirit that drove te first ascentionists into this unique and bizarre terrain.

[Brad Young]

Nice work guys.

Two questions:

- Did you need a headlamp;

- Was it dry (I suspect so since the only rains in months were weeks ago).

[Zay]

I think headlamps were pretty critical, mostly for the second 5.8 chimney... however i suspect that if someone messed up and forgot their headlamps... it would be DOABLE but pretty hard.

Bone dry. Weather has been beautiful

[Brad Young]

I tried that second pitch, 5.8 chimney without a headlamp. I could NOT see my feet and just could not get going. And Jon, who was with us that first time I was at that spot, told us that there was more light that day there than he had seen before.

[mungeclimber]

TFPU!