Goback Mountain

Foxhole Prayer - NEI 6 50m

 
A 35m first pitch [crux] to the Cleft Room, 15m second pitch up the chimney/cave system and then through the roof.

The climb is located 200yds left of the Valhalla Amphitheater, past the obvious face and cleft to a dark chimney system that exits through the top of the cliff

Protection: Stubbies, Cams, Nuts, Screws

Descent: Rap route

FA: Josh Hurst, Ian Austin

Extenuating Circumstances: Start on the hollow, detached column on the right hand wall, transfer 10' to the left hand wall where good gear is found.  Next, launch up the overhanging blobs to overhanging ice with little screw protection to the Cleft Room.  Tunnel up through the back of the cave heading for the daylight.  A second option exists out left up a bombay chimney.

Notes: A mind numbing 2-pitch route that ends with a tunneling adventure to escape--if your chest is 36" or bigger, you won't fit (Josh was too fat and claustrophobic to follow this pitch). It's like climbing the inside of a 60m pyramid; everything on the first pitch is overhanging. Oh, and bring headlamps for the second pitch belay and exit.

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