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I agree the second pitch is kind of chossy but that makes it more exciting! After surviving a few whippers at the begining of the 3rd pitch the crack above was pretty cool and balancy. I remember trying to place gear and trying not to breath too deep so I woudn't push myself away from the rock.

Oh, I think max probably meant the 3rd pitch cause we ran the first 2 together. Insane rope drag. I was practically crying to have max agree to let me set up a belay but he kept saying to keep going. Fucker.

i think brontosaurus is a good 3 pitch route. all the pitches are are short, but well worth it. the belay at the end of the 1st pitch is rad.

Couldn't do the whole thing without getting pumped, eh? Well, keep climbing sonny, you'll get stronger eventually.

ynot , it pros up pretty good.the last pitch is 5.5 but it your pro is kinda hard to place because it under you as you climb. it is kind of angling traverse. there is pic in the album of the last pitch.i just run out and put a piece in for the top out.

hey, has anyone been on basecamp?

i think that would be a multi-pitch trad route.

yeah, sorry, danny and I did cruisemaster in two. it should be three. let it be known that there is just a small* amount of drag if you do it in two. i thought it was funny as hell watching danny trying to pull lengths of rope before every move. he would yank and pull and yank and pull, then move a couple of feet. I was laughing my ass off... of course i was belaying from the biggest damn thorn bush in the gorge. fucker.

basecamp looks pretty cool. nice dihedral on first pitch.

Here is a little experiment that could spice up your multi pitch climbing at the Red.

Go to the Online Guide Search:

http://www.redriverclimbing.com/RRCGuideV2/search.php

Leave Trad and Mixed checked and uncheck the rest of the boxes on this line (Sport, Toprope, ect).

In the rating type between 5.0 and 5.11.

In the Length type between 120 and 500.

And click on Ask the Crag Sloth button.

You will end up with about 70 routes. Some of these routes are multipitch as per the description.

Other routes in the search are not normally climbed in two pitches since they can be done in one long pitch. However if what you want is multipitch climbing, break them up in 60 feet sections. Most of them are crack routes and you could build a hangining belay with gear (this would be a bonus).

What? You don't have the beta on these routes. Oh, the adventure factor is the cherry on the top.

PS: You might have noticed that most of the routes in the search have at least one star.