Thirsting Skull - Military Wall :: 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 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

Beenestalker

This route is located in the Gray's Branch Region at Military Wall

Jac Mac

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Thirsting Skull 5.12c (Sport) {Route Closed}

First Ascent: Porter Jarrard, Mark Williams in 1990
Length: 50ft
Bolts: 5 (report bad bolts/anchors)

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This is the pocketed face climb to the right of Beenestalker.

Tricky fifth clip. Currently closed 11/2002.

Moves: Pockets
Descent: Cold shuts
Stays Dry: Downpour
Owner: NFS

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Anonymous said on September 7th, 2003

i saw this guy soloing this route naked and the weird thing was he was trying to feed his "rope" through the chains

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Anonymous said on March 18th, 2005

rapped all the way to the ground on that thing

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ashtray said on June 24th, 2007

Tear down this wall!!!!! One of the best 12c s ever.

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).