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Redbird (aka Ladybird)
Description
Either boulder up to the first bolt from the ground on sloping holds or start from the overhang/cave area by reaching over to the first bolt (this latter start is recommended due to the potential tumble down scree and over the lower cliff line).
Follow 3 bolts up the ledgy face, and take the right line of bolts (the left line of bolts is
Rainbird
) that goes up the lighter colored rock, passing a small pine tree (recommended to go to the right of the pine tree). Proceed to a ledge with a belay/rap station. Clip here, and proceed above toward and through the red colored dihedral above. Stem, lieback, etc., through a few bolts to a set of chains.
CAUTION on the DESCENT:
this is a long route at 130'. From the upper anchors, a 70m rope WILL NOT get you back to the cliff base by lowering or rappelling! The descent is to either use an 80m rope and rap/lower to the bottom, or use a 70m rope to rappel/lower to the mid anchors, then pull rope and rap/lower to the cliff base.
Location
The start is shared with
Rainbird
. When approaching from the west along the base, just after stepping down a few feet from the cave-like overhang, find the start.
Protection
15 bolts + clipping the mid-rap station: 16 clips + chains.
Routes in The Ledges
- 3Redbird (aka Ladybird)5.10cSport