The climbing at the Index Town Walls is perhaps the biggest draw to the Sky Valley aside from the meth cookers. The climbing can get you just as high... without all those bugs crawling under your skin.
Jason and I ran out for an after-work session up at the upper town wall. It had been about ten years since I'd been on Heaven's Gate which is a fantastic sport multipitch line about fifty yards left of Davis-Holland. There isn't a bad section on this route and developers bolted it very well (albeit a tad conservatively in some sections). Bring 14 draws, leave the trad rack hanging at the first belay and a single 70m rope will get you up and down. In my mind this route is on par with Davis-Holland an ought to have a line at the bottom.
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| Jason climbing Lamplighter (Heaven's Gate's first pitch). |
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| Jason nearing the top of the second pitch. |
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| Jason on the third pitch. The route finishes up the obvious double roofs above with a definite crux at the second roof. |
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