Cat in the Hat - Dip Wall :: Red River Gorge Online Guide

Walk Right from Star-Bellied Sneeches and you will see a small break in the trees on the left. Walk up a short hill to this obvious dirty offwidth/chimney with large holds at the beginning. Pull over a sandy bulge making use of friable but large jugs to a small ledge. Climb the chimney until it narrows to a right leaning offwidth. Continue up the offwidth and traverse left to small ledge with a tree. Rappel from here or continue 10 more feet to the top and rappel from a tree to descend.

Descent: Rap from tree
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Submitted by: p0bray01
Date: Sep 18th, 2007

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Anonymous said on September 18th, 2007

With a description including "dirty offwidth," "sandy," "friable" and other pleasing adjectives, how can this be two stars?

pigsteak said on September 18th, 2007

it is a 5 star system now, so are you saying it should have more or less stars? I guess it depends if you like mank and are old school trad...

SCIN said on September 18th, 2007

Because that's what was pre-populated in the field when I entered it in.

chriss said on September 19th, 2007

I did this climb with my brother in the summer of 2005. Chances are it has seen a lot of ascents. We thought it was god save the queen as we were hiking the wall, then later found that climb.

Anonymous said on September 19th, 2007

"dirty offwidth", "sandy", "friable" and other pleasing adjectives, how can this be two stars? I know, right!? This should be at least 3...especially for piggie - Haas

Anonymous said on September 24th, 2007

I lead this climb with friends a couple of years ago and again several weeks ago. We left webbing and a rap ring at the top tree both times. It is not a 5.8. Probably a 5.6-esp in comparison to other climbs at Dip Wall

SCIN said on October 15th, 2012

Climbed this about 10 years ago.

pigsteak said on October 15th, 2012

I climbed this when i was seven. Thatd be around 1924.

dustonian said on October 15th, 2012

I did it back in '22

Jeff said on October 15th, 2012

My mom climbed this before I was hatched. Must a been round 18 and 87 or so.

dustonian said on October 15th, 2012

I saw a bunch of dudebrahs from Boulder climbing all over Cromper's mom up at the rap anchor of this route four score and seven years ago

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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