Keeper of the Flame

One of the few two-pitch lines at Stone Hill. 70m rope required if rapping! No seasonal falcon closure!

Pitch 1, 120 ft., 5.10b: Lots of bolts, one or two placements to 2 (can be skipped if feeling confident) to a semi-hanging chain belay.

Pitch 2, 45 ft., you have three options: - The left line is mixed 5.8 (**)

• The middle line is 10.a sport (developed 5/2019 by Greg Stenger)

• The right line is fantastic crimping, 10.c sport (***)

If you do the 10.a or 10.c route, you will find belay chains on a boulder about 20 ft. back from the top of the wall; it is easiest to rappel from the 5.8 chains.

On Lower Lakeside Wall, the fourth route from the left of the wall (two long, unnamed, not-in-the-book sport routes, Flame, and then Keeper). Hint: The start of Keeper is framed perfectly by two Douglas fir trees!

10-12 quickdraws (I forget exactly how many), gear to 2, chain anchors.