Mousetrap, M4+, 33m, Unnamed Wall

Submitted by Erik J on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 11:59

Mousetrap (Erik Johnson, Loren Rausch, Scott Salzer), a 33m M4+ dry mixed route 30 feet left of Itchy and Scratchy Show on the Unnamed wall was put in over the February 25-26th weekend.  13 bolts to a chain anchor.  Compact rock on a less-than-vertical face leads to a shallow dihedral.  As the length implies, a 70 m rope works well, a 60 might make it just down with rope stretch.  The anchor is well below (~20') below the top though there is a nice little tree with a sling that one could walk to once on the clifftop. 

I climbed this line yesterday (March 3rd), and it was a whole lot of fun. The only issue i had was a 30' runout because I couldn't find a snowcovered bolt. I'd highly recommend the line on a drier day.