After climbing Cereal Killer on the N'Plus Ultra Wall (a What the FORGET ABOUT IT! climb), we walked across the upper ledge in an attempt to find and climb Grey Matter at Lost Creek Canyon.
Grey Matter
Climb: Grey Matter (trad, 5.7, 100' feet)
Wall: Lost Creek Canyon
Gear: Unknown
Conclusion WTF? WHERE the FUCK?
Wall: Lost Creek Canyon
Gear: Unknown
Conclusion WTF? WHERE the FUCK?
In the very top (overview) image on this page you can see the general path we took to get to the area called Lost Creek Canyon. In the image of Stef below, you can see the reality of that hike - scrub oak and cactus. It took quite a while to get there.
The climb Grey Matter is only described in the Handren guidebook, there are no photos and it is not in Mountain Project. The description says "this poorly protected route climbs a slabby, yellow face to an anchor below a big roof." It seems like there are some key features - anchors, roof, yellow slab - that would have allowed us to find this climb, but alas, nada.
When looking at the photo below, the far left option seems the mostly like as it appears to most closely match the description. But we were unable to see any anchors, and, in addition to the description saying the climb is poorly protected, the climb LOOKS pretty darn unprotectable. It's possible the anchors were there but hidden, however in order to not get caught between a rock and hard place, we opted to not go up there and find out.
When looking at the photo below, the far left option seems the mostly like as it appears to most closely match the description. But we were unable to see any anchors, and, in addition to the description saying the climb is poorly protected, the climb LOOKS pretty darn unprotectable. It's possible the anchors were there but hidden, however in order to not get caught between a rock and hard place, we opted to not go up there and find out.
Searching for the climb Grey Matter... there were several possibilities that sort of matched the description - but we could not see any anchors to give us an indication of the climb.
Climb Stats to Date
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DATE OF CLIMB: March 27, 2022
WALLS HIT: 2 NUMBER OF 5.7 CLIMBS: 2 (one we could not find) NUMBER OF 5.7 PITCHES: 1 NUMBER OF FALLS: 0 NUMBER OF TAKES: 0 VERTICAL FEET CLIMBED: 180' DIRTY UNDERWEAR ENCOUNTERED: 0 TOTAL CLIMBS SO FAR: 180 TOTAL PITCHES SO FAR: 238 TOTAL 5.7 VERTICAL FEET ON THE TOUR SO FAR: 21,220 NUMBER OF CLIMBS REMAINING: 57 (out of 238) VERTICAL FEET REMAINING: 29,877' DIRTY UNDERWEAR ENCOUNTERED TO DATE: 8 |
FALLS SO FAR:
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