Ascents of Hotel California having Beta

great climbing. rain and wind but totally worth it. alt lead pitch1,3,5,7,9

first pitch required a bit of draw pulling! The traverse is totally amazing!

Awesome traverse, had me freaked out. Took 10hrs car to car, 8hrs climbing. Make sure you have plenty of water I took 3 litres and it was gone by pitch 7. The area is badly burnt out so by the end of the day we where covered in charcoal.

P1,6,7,8 are classics in their own right. No real choss. Lots of bolts. Pumpy 1st pitch.

Wind was howling which made it a long day. My 2nd multi and first one i lead pitches. Took us 12 hours car to car thanks to some slow climbing thanks to the wind

hard going for pitch 6 and onward in the sun. I did the evens, Ant the odds

Middle pitches average but others awesome.

Only did two pitches, found them quite exciting, and rain all night before and two hour approach drained us mentally and physically! (excuses, excuses!) Next time!

avoided 2 pitches by going up contented cows

personal note:dont ever start this climb at 3pm with 3 people. you finish by head touch at about 12pm, hanging belays in the dark.

pw 1,2,4,6,7,8 me 3,5

dog p1 (rather hard for 22),s/c p2,os p3,s/c p4,os p5,s/c p6 (amazing stuff),os p7,s/c p8,os p10. Gr8 day out!

rain, strong wind, pulped fingers, totally enjoyable! Alt lead OS 2,4,6,8,10: rest clean except P1- Gde21 going on 23!

All day adventure, scary for someone used to clipping rings

Wow! First pitch goes at 22+. The rest of the climb is really fun. The traverse make you feel mortal. I advise against doing this climb after racking 300+ meters of sport climb at Sahara Point the day before.

would have been good to get an earlier start, but this way we did the last 2 pitches under head torch.

absolute adventure, love the traverse and headwall

7.5 hours Car to Car, including wasting 30min walking back and forth trying to find the start of the climb. Good, but not as classic as some of the other routes at Pierces Pass. P1, P2, P6 and P7 are worth the trip, the rest is merely average. Led Pitches 2,4,6,8,10 after losing the toss for the crux pitch. 1 rest (on second) on crux of first pitch, all others clean. P1 is sustained 22, or 23 for the Onsight (based on the one trick crux move). The traverse is repetitive, but exciting. POSITION!

Sic route, fell at the seond crux on the first pitch, a bit pumpy when starting cold. Rest of the route was alternate leads all free. Will do it again just because it's so good!

Those top pitches are stellar! Thanks Ben.

Mega. Took a monster lob off the final 18 pitch. 10m upside-down whipper back to the belay when a hold snapped off while clipping a bolt. Luckily I had my Italian belayer as a bouldering mat.

Nice climb, as others have said it is a hard start pitch especially with a heavy bag. The traverse pitch is the pick of the bunch. Overall a very good adventure. 7 hours car to car.

An alternative to the popular Bunnies. Good times, Pack light & bring water. Don't forget to slip slop slap.

Incredible! So much QuickDraw aiding on a couple of pitches. The traverse was unforgettable! and scary...

Great day! Almost ticked first pitch, but backpack was weighing me down and I had to pull on a bolt. The rest of the climb was done free. Mega!! Pitch 7 was an exciting lead

All pitches clean except the first. I led all even pitches. A great day of life.

Great climbing! Best multi pitch I've ever done. First pich is good and hard. Took a fall there just to slap me into reality. Pitch 5,6,7,8 are awesome. The traverse was scary...

Thwarted by the first pitch! immediatly realising we packed too much. Every other pitch was linked clean. Team solo of pitch 9

Wow, what a route. Hard to get a gauge on difficulty of P1 as seconded with the backpack but dogged the hell out of it and pulled a draw or two. The moves looked and felt more like a 23 to me.

I took even leads and onsited all. Seconded all odds clean. Pitches 2, 6, 7 and 8 were INCREDIBLE. You shouldn't skip the last pitch either...was fun climbing if you ignore the bad rock quality!

First sport multi pitch. So yeah! Fun times; (he says retrospectively, sitting on his couch drinking a Corona) - but need more than 500 characters to even begin to articulate what an epic character building adventure that this was. The climbing was fantastic; thoroughly enjoyable; even the last pitch on mostly wet rock was an excellent finish. The best part of this multi-pitch is that your fatigue gets matched with the gradual easing in grade difficulty while still maintaining its 3 star level

Nice morning out

Not quite as epic as the hype, but still an amazing climb.

P1 - Tom P2 - Sam P3 - Tom P4 - Tom P5 - Sam P6 - Tom P7 - Sam P8 - Tom P9 - N/A P10 - Sam

Good day climbing with the Guilmonster

Epic day, with epic pitches, first pitch was nails even on second, to start the day off tough, Belays were a bit packed with three people but managable... Traverse pitch was epic! say no more!

23-24??? Pitch 1 dogged P1 alot, P7, P8 mega mega mega exposure pitches 6/7 pitch 6 - crimpy all the way (pumpathon) beware of rock quaity, i had some rocks break off(feet) on the traverse and on pitch 7 had a hand hold explode as i was going for a big move.

7h climbing time

special thank to Dany for leading all of the tough pitches when I was too pumped/scared to lead. being a boulderer i have no endurance for multi sport of this magnitude.

Hard start. Each climb had a memorable moment. Pulled through crux P1

every pitch has its own story to share with the climber. fantastic!!! Below is what I personally felt the grades were the moves on the travers we 18 but due to the length of the pitch the pump makes it 19

Piercess Pass Challange 1000 Secon climb of the day. Still dark linked few pitches. First pich in dark not good!

3 people Simo-climbing

3.5 hour not car to car

Absolutely awesome climb. Dogged the first pitch, but all else clean. Leading the traverse pitch was rad. With rope drag it felt harder than 19 though.

Great day out with beautiful weather! First pitch is a bit hard on your fingers, but Chris did well to onsight it! I didn't make it clean and pulled some draws (well placed). We were behind a party of 3, and then later another party of 2, so was a pretty chill day, finally starting at 11:30 am and having a 1-2 hour sleep on the midway ledge. Second pitch is some great climbing at grade 20. The traverse pitch felt a lot easier than it looked, with only a few hardish moves. The rock is surprisingly solid, the exposure is epic and the rope drag manageable The final 18 pitch has some giant ironstone plates, waiting to be broken off and the anchors are set back further than you think. We walked out the exit gully as it was getting late.