rjackson wrote:Do tell... I think everyone here is interested in things that make you pucker.
pucker factor is high with this one boys. just standing at the base, looking into the abyss gets the heart rate kickin' before even leaving the ground.
ok, deep breath.
back in ’08 myself and a friend went to dunkan. we did frenchburg overhangs and the beeneling. we gawked with a mixture of pure fear and awe at what’s left of the beeneling, but were lacking daylight, gear and the balls to do it. this year, jay and myself have attempted to go back. three times. the first two attempts ended up with us wandering around in the woods, never even finding it. the third was yesterday. with all the leaves down, it was easy. just eye it from the road and make a bee line to frenchburg. so, i had been trying to get on what’s left of the beeneling for over a year and yesterday it happened. and it was ugly.
it starts with 20ft of straight in offwidth. after that, you crawl back into a cave, set a bomber #5 and start up about 20ft of flaring chimney that slowly squeezes down into an off fists splitter, forcing you out onto the face. this is where things went south for me. i got stuck trying to come out of the squeeze. completely exhausted, i had to take. it was dusk, still had over ½ the route to go and i was drained. not good. it ended up being an aid fest through the fists portion until i finally gained the ledge before the final section of the climb. i had webbing to set an anchor, so i slung a chocked boulder on the ledge and got the hell off that demon crack.
no. i am not proud that i chose to bail. on the upside, when this thing goes it will be pure, sweet victory.
wes,
the anchor trees are fine. it's the webbing that doesn't last a season. there must be some mutant rats up there. the webbing on frenchburg was chewed more than half way through and the webbing on wlotb was in shambles lying next to the tree.
i know it's on FS land, but man would it be sweet to have some chain at the top of those beene cracks. they are worthy.
