chossclimbers

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In the morning, drizzle and dense fog greeted us. A 45 minute drive on some winding cobblestone roads brought us to what we thought was the trailhead for the La Tanda formation. This was supposed to be home of a 5-pitch 5.10b climb (Mas Alla De La Estrellas) on a steep conglomerate wall. With little hope of climbing, we nevertheless grabbed our gear and hiked up to the base in a drizzle. After a bit of back and forth, we finally found Mas Alla De La Estrellas…running wet and mossy. A sort of incremental progression would be a recurring theme on this trip: well, it’s raining so let’s just drive to the trailhead….let’s just hike to the base….let’s just try the first pitch…Three wet and slick pitches up we were staring at a hard looking roof. The climbing thus far was likely no harder than 5.8 or 5.9 but the slickness of the rock and the moss made it pretty lively. The rain was now picking up but we got up this high…The roof (not 5.10-) got by-passed via some moss pulling variation on the left and we were soon atop pitch 4 looking at a 20’ bolt ladder through some steep and thin terrain to the top. It was raining harder, we were both wet and pretty sick of the whole package. So we rapped without finishing.

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