We checked out Red Dihedral on Red Eagle this last weekend. We found it to be occasionally dirty but also has some truly beautiful rock on the way. The azaleas were blooming
on the route which made for some extremely peaceful and pleasantly scented belays.
The climb was a little sparse for gear in places and we mave had benefited from some larger gear which we didn't bring. We only had one 3" and one 4" piece which were quickly used but once I got home and looked up the original topo the climb originally called for 6". Oops! Would have been nice to have had one.
The flowers were going bonkers everywhere on the approach, at the base and on the route. I wish I took more but we had battery issues with the camera so we took less than normal.
Start was a little mossy but not problematic. There might have been more gear options if we did some excavating.
Top of P1 is a giant ledge.
Views from other end of ledge.
Don't go this way...
P2
P3 starts with a short chimney then becomes a long varying-width pitch forever..
The actual dihedral is incredibly featured. Somewhere lower down in here is Jeff's line which looks sick. It climbs up this face onto the right buttress and continues up to the summit.
Really beautiful weekend!
The original topo shows a path around a "ceiling" which we didn't really find. Perhaps at the top of the chimney at the start of P3 has a short, thick flake thing that I suppose you could climb around but it didn't feel right to do so. Hmm, at least there is no important key beta that is needed to get through this climb.
Good times!!
