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#55185 - 09/22/10 12:12 AM Clean Aid Routes In The Dacks.
Adrian Offline
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Registered: 03/12/09
Posts: 41
I've been wanting to head up to the Daks to do some aid climbing. I got the Adirondack Rock guidebook, but didn't see much aid routes in there. I'm looking for mostly C1 to C2 clean aid routes without using hooks (I don't have any). Any recommendations?

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#55186 - 09/22/10 12:24 AM Re: Clean Aid Routes In The Dacks. [Re: Adrian]
chip Offline
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Registered: 10/06/01
Posts: 2555
Loc: Sittin' Pretty in Fat City
You can pick almost any crack climb, except maybe Little Finger. (Little Finger is sorta like a slab with a crack and would be way too easy and really suck to do in aiders). Perhaps one of the less popular lines at the Beer Walls would be a good start. Oh, almost forgot, there isn't ever a crowd there anyway.

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#55192 - 09/22/10 01:03 AM Re: Clean Aid Routes In The Dacks. [Re: chip]
Frank Florence Online   content
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Registered: 01/05/00
Posts: 515
Loc: Watertown or Bend
Here are some suggestions for non-congested areas in which to practice aid climbing on reasonably continuous cracks:

the Upper Tiers at Poke-O, esp. the Headwall;
routes beginning at the Roaches Terrace on Pitchoff Chimney Cliff;
the 5.10 Wall at Beer Walls;
and if you ever make it way up north, Azure Mountain.

See Lawyer and Haas's guide for useful cracks to target. Have fun.

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#55193 - 09/22/10 01:22 AM Re: Clean Aid Routes In The Dacks. [Re: Frank Florence]
Mike Rawdon Offline

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Registered: 11/29/99
Posts: 4158
Loc: Poughkeepsie
Azure Mt is indeed remote. From the numerous days I spent there in college, I'd advise that you wouldn't get far going strictly hammerless and hookless. But where else are you going to find a deserted 250' face that overhangs for the first 180'?

My other 2 cents - Silver Lake, Tsunami Wall. Also way remote and not any place you'd want to epic. (Jim Lawyer can advise further if this has been tried as an aid line)

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#55237 - 09/22/10 07:33 PM Re: Clean Aid Routes In The Dacks. [Re: Mike Rawdon]
Adrian Offline
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Registered: 03/12/09
Posts: 41
Thanks for the replies! Yes, any crack will do, I'm just looking for some longish routes that I can clean aid and haul completely so I can gauge my speed.

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