Heavy Mental - Bee Branch Rock :: Red River Gorge Online Guide

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Gray's Branch Region

»Grays Wall
»Left Flank
»Military Wall
»Raven Rock
»Spring Wall
»Tunnel Wall

Lower Gorge Region

»Asylum Wall
»Backside Wall
»Bear Wollor Hollor
»Bee Branch Rock
»Between Wall
»Blackburn Rock
»Board Wall
»Brighton Wall
»Buzzard Ridge
»Clearcut Wall
»Coffin Ridge
»Dip Wall
»Dome, The
»Indian Creek Crag
»Jazz Rock
»Long Wall
»Lost Ridge
»Lumpy Wall
»Minas Tirith
»Muscle Beach
»Pebble Beach
»Pistol Ridge
»Purple Valley
»Symphony Wall
»Tarr Ridge
»Teeth Buttress
»Willie's Wall

Northern Gorge Region

»Dunkan Rock
»Fortress Wall
»Mariba Fork
»Meyer's Fork
»Phantasia
»Sassafras Rock

Middle Gorge Region

»Adena Wall
»Cloud Splitter
»Gladie Rock
»Hen's Nest
»Jewel Pinnacle
»Lower Small Wall
»Middle Small Wall
»Pinch-em Tight Ridge
»Sheltowee Wall
»Staircase Wall
»Tower Rock
»Upper Small Wall
»Window Wall
»Wolfpen

Upper Gorge Region

»Doorish Wall
»Eagle Point Buttress
»Moonshiner's Wall
»Wall of Denial
»Woody's Wall

Eastern Gorge Region

»Buzzard's Roost
»Camp Store Crag
»Chimney Top
»Eastern Sky Bridge Ridge
»Funk Rock City
»Half Moon
»Lower Sky Bridge Ridge
»Princess Arch
»Rock Bridge
»Rough Trail
»Sky Bridge
»Western Sky Bridge Ridge
»Wildcat Wall

Tunnel Ridge Road Region

»Auxier Ridge
»Courthouse Rock
»D. Boone Hut Crag
»Double Arch
»Haystack Rock
»Jailhouse Rock
»Star Gap Arch Area

Natural Bridge Region

»Beer Trailer Crag
»Friction Slab
»Lady Slipper - Emerald City
»Lady Slipper - Global Village
»Quarry Rock
»Roadside Crag - LIMITED ACCESS
»See Rocks
»Slade Rock
»Torrent Falls - LIMITED ACCESS
»Zoo, The

Southern Region Muir Valley Miller Fork

»Alcatraz
»Camelot
»Chaos
»Cloud 9
»Cooper's Cove
»Corner Pocket
»Deep End
»Fruit Wall
»Graveyard
»Hal Garner Memorial Crag, The
»Highlands
»Infirmary, The
»Laboratory, The
»Monastery
»Morgue, The
»Nursery, The
»Pharmacy, The
»Portal, The
»Rando Crag
»Real Deep End
»Record Shop, The
»Sanitarium
»Scotch Wall
»Secret Garden
»Serenity Point
»Vine Wall

»Drop Out Wall
»McCow Pasture
»Pepper Wall
»Salt Wall

Sandblaster

This route is located in the Lower Gorge Region at Bee Branch Rock

The "end" of the crag

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Heavy Mental 5.9+ (Trad)

First Ascent: Martin Hackworth, Jerrell Goodpaster in 1988
Length: 65ft
Gear: (report bad anchors)

Walk left from Invisible Barrier to a handrack a few feet left of a dihedral. Climb the crack until it ends then finish on the face to the top.

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Owner: NFS

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Date: Jan 19th, 2015

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Wicked Tribe said on April 19th, 2004

The dihedral mentioned in the description looks to be the better route. Unclimbed?

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).