1. Zendebad 5.13a **** (S) This is the first route encountered after the top of the wood stairs. It begins left of a blunt arete. Make a difficult move to start then continue through a series of bizarre and powerful moves on slopers, small crimps, and knobs to a more overhanging and pumpy finish on sidepulls and pinches.
FA: Ray Ellington, Kipp Trummel, 2007. Chains. Technical. 55 ft. 7 bolts.
Star rating is 4.5 (out of 2 votes)
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User:Ray Date: Nov 17th, 2007 Comments: Thanks Kipp! Awesome and funky line. This route was kind of like doing a puzzle. A tough one to grade but Lynn Hill called it 13a for average sized people and 13b for short people when she got on it. I guess she knows grades a hell of a lot better than me so I'll go with that.
User:pigsteak Date: Nov 17th, 2007 Comments: if you want to send this puzzle, go in cold temps...several moves will be made easier by grippy rock.
User:mcrib Date: Nov 22nd, 2007 Comments: Did anyone sit in a harnass for 6 hours to shoot pics of ray sending or just to get pictures of a famous climber not sending?
User:pigsteak Date: Nov 23rd, 2007 Comments: come on mcrib...why so ungrateful. artsay belayed his fat ass in freezing cold many times out there..and beleive it or not, there actually is some raw footage of ray working the route the weekend before his send. we are equal opportunity haters, ya know. can we post video here? I'll link it to Ray.
User:goodguy Date: Jun 8th, 2008 Comments: Got on this last Saturday and there were 2 of the biggest copperheads I have ever seen right behing the belay and in the cave to the left. Watch out! Oh, and how the hell are you supposed to clip the second bolt?
User:Ray Date: Jun 8th, 2008 Comments: I'm pretty sure I clipped the 2nd bolt off of the dong hold.
User:pigsteak Date: Jun 8th, 2008 Comments: yeah, off the dong....grab it with an over hand grip, pinky next to the wall.
User:goodguy Date: Jun 8th, 2008 Comments: Cool, I just hope I don't break the Dong.
User:pigsteak Date: Jun 8th, 2008 Comments: the right amount of pressure when handling the dong is paramount. squeeze gently, but hang on as a reverse grip will be needed as well.
Route details are copyright Ray Ellington, John Bronaugh,
and other Red River Gorge climbers. Climbing is
an inherently dangerous sport. The information in this guidebook is subject to error and should supplement
never replace common sense and caution, competent guidance and instruction,
and actually being outside. One should be especially cautious on matters
of route length, descent type, and number of bolts (especially since such things
do change occasionally).
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