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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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May 12, 2009 - 01:14pm PT
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from the 1987 Meyers-Reid guide:
Mass Assault 5.9
From a point near the highest trees, up and right of the huge
overhangs on the southeast face, this five pitch route meanders up
the slabs above.
Sounds like an O4 to me - no topo, semi-vague description, and the one person from the FA who has volunteered doesn't remember much about where it goes. :-)
http://www.stanford.edu/~clint/yos/obscurity_scale.txt
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 13, 2009 - 10:06am PT
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Hey, it is a friction route, anything was possible BITD! LOL
I thought MA started at the low point....next!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2009 - 01:41am PT
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Has anyone even gone for a third ascent? That's madness, this is a fine route on North Dome and it's not hard! Wake up and hike to the dome!
It's new, it fine, and why not, it on North Dome (not as hot as the valley but doesn't get stormed near as much as the meadows)
Bump to get ya'll crackin
Baba
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2011 - 12:50pm PT
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Anybody done this yet? It's a GREAT route! Why do Crest Jewel again when you can do something new?
Peace
Karl
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cmclean
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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May 10, 2012 - 01:16am PT
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My brother and I climbed Nataraj last Saturday. It is definitely a high quality climb! It felt a little bit harder/more sustained than Crest Jewel Direct but that could have been due to us being in worse shape. The bolting is ample enough on the harder sections that it is just a really fun day out on amazing granite.
Karl's topo is very accurate, the only things I would add are that p5 is 100', p6 is 140', and p10 has 4 bolts (not 3).
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - May 10, 2012 - 01:32am PT
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Yeah good job
It's somewhat harder than crest jewel for sure but also better protected except in really easy places
peace
Karl
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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May 10, 2012 - 02:57am PT
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Thanks, Cory - will correct the topo.
The xRez shot from the top of Half Dome gives a good perspective for showing where some of these routes go.
The bolts on Mass Assault are still the original 1/4" from 1972.
It will take some work to replace them; might happen this summer.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 10, 2012 - 03:10am PT
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HOLY COW, DAKSHINA!--Robin the Wonderboy
The North (Dome Thread) Has Risen Again!
Glory, glory hallelujah!
Karl, you likely know and can share about Dakshina, the religious Rama-fications.
Canst? Wouldst?
Also, the opening photos were pretty impressive for a 40 year old...
MFM
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