New Route on Lost Eagle ???

[Dave]

Ger and I were passing by LE this weekend on our way out from Unapologetic Stupidity Dome this weekend when we noticed three white frosted hangers doing up to the same anchors as Tales From The Wadi. The mystery route sits between Momma's Little Fledgling and Tales. Dave A.....did you put this up?

[mungeclimber]

If it's just left of Tales from the Wadi, I think that's John G's route.

[NateD]

From the Guidebook - Additions, Corrections, Comments thread, John wrote:

Melting Wall:
Unnamed Route-5.7 John Godar, Sean Neville 7/2013; Water streak about 8' right of "Mommas Little Fledgeling". Belay at crack. No anchor, so walk off is necessary.

I assumed this was just a pure trad pitch on the knobby Melting Wall proper - right of p.2 of Mommas, but maybe it goes up the slab below as well, in which case the bolt count could have been noted, and maybe the number of pitches. Yours John?

[YETI]

white frosted hangers

White is light

[John]

The bolted line is not mine but actually put up by a different John G. along with Justin B., and named "Navel Eagle" and is a 5.6 or 5.7. It is a stand-alone, one-pitch climb done ground up and hand drilled from stance.

There are some new routes and formations being named after eagles in direct response to Matt S.'s route, "No More Fucking Eagle Names" on Unapologetic Statement Dome. This is one of them.

[Dave]

If only.

[susan]

Navel Eagle not because of the Navy but because of the hole in the wall that looks like a belly button, right?

[sneville]

I believe john godar soloed this route a month before they put it up.  Yeti, don't you recall?


Sean

[YETI]

Yeah, I seem to remember seeing John to the right of that 10A, ropeless and grinning.