Into the Frying Pan

A couple of us played hooky from work on Wednesday and headed up to the F-Pan crag. This area was featured in an article in the most recent Rock and Ice magazine, and for good reason. The stone is excellent, the climbing unique and the setting top notch. The lower crag, the Skillet, is in the new guidebook, but there are about 50 more routes up the hill at the upper area. We hope to get some topos online soon, for now if you want to explore, just keep hiking up the trail past the Chubby Pickle for about 20 minutes. The routes will be obvious.

We spent the day playing on the Mental Block, which already has an excellent selection of climbs, from 5.8 to 5.13. Mike was like a man possessed and when the dust cleared we had two new lines, both 5.11-ish. It was a great day to be out enjoying the incredible fall weather we’ve been having, hopefully it’ll go on for another month!