Ascents in West Virginia having Beta

Night climb

What a great crack

Tough first move on the 3rd pitch.

Was a TR !! but great climb

about the best for the grade - fantastic view

wet spots

use a cam to tether your belayer

can have wet spots

A couple fantastic moves, good roof, great climb

not crazy about this one. weird sequence

Climbed it after rain. Wall is very slippery. Some dirt were washed down in the hand holds. Crux at the bottom and one third of the wall. I had to grab QuickDraws for a few moves. Then it rained about 5 minutes just to get the wall more wet before Glory followed. I had to haul her for half of the climb.... Top out can connect to the endless trail.

Fun, sequency, vertical, balancy, fingerlocking, crimps, runout start and runout finish - what more could you ask for!

Wierd start, but a fun slab climb.

Extremeley fun climbing. Goes through a massive imposing roof which is full of jugs.

One hell of a sweet route, not a bad move on it. The whole thing is fun, from the stemming corner, to the balancy traverse, to the mega huge roof haul. The whole thing is steep, and the whole thing is classic.

Done while it was PISSING rain! It felt very hard because of the water. It was pouring down my arms every time I reached up for a hold, and my glasses fogged up, meaning any gear I was placing was either without my glasses, or through fogged lenses! Very exciting, and a little worrying. Pour Mike belaying in the rain!

Cottonmouth to Venom in one is classic!

Sweet climb!!!!

This climb is a horrible piece of crap, that lives up to its name of trash. Every move is awkward, every hold is big enough to hold onto, but slants the wrong way. The pro is not great. The crux up top is wierd to read and if done wrong (ie my way) is harder then 5.8 and is protected only by a green camalot that goes into a pocket, then expands completely and rattles around in it's spot. The top two lobes are only heald in buy an eighth inch of rock each, although the two bottom lobes are held in buy more, and the BD double axle is theoretically supposed to be able to take that kind of a fall, except for that thin rock on the top two lobes. The route sees no action, so the crux above that shitty camalot is a lichen jungle, I had to brush the wall off to find holds. The shuts will put a shitload of twists in your rope if you thread them directly through and toprope it as we did since it looked like rain was on the way and wanted to be able to just lower off, not have to mess around with retrieving gear from the top. This climb is horrible, and not worth doing, especially considering the quality and amount of other routes in the area.

Fun and sequency.

Did it in the rain, after a big sweaty guy had just dogged his way up it, and it was one of the most greasy things I ever sunk my hands onto. My only fall was simply from slipping off of a jug with a particularly thick coating of grease.

An OK climb, loose holds at the bottom which have been that way forever with not too fun moves.

Classic line, mega fun.

Fun, nice to do laps on a sweet crack system.

Another one of the climbs we did on that weekend it poured rain. A great lead by Mike. It was soaking wet but luckily some of the hardest sections were out of the rain and not too bad.

Fun wide bottome section.

Jeezus! Talk about exposed! Scared the crap out of me. Not a hard move in it, but due to running the top two pitches together I was having to majorly conserve gear, making it quite runout, and since it's a traverse, the falls would be yuk. Big moves as well. Summary: Great climb, mainly for the exposure. Suffers from overuse - the footholds are literally laminated with shoe rubber, making the climb that much more scary.

Took one fall - next time!!!

Superb! I did it onsight, ground up, with passive only gear on an unfamiliar rack!

Akward but fun - worth doing to link up to Crack of Dawn.

Nice ending to the superb first pitch.

Link up the start of Lichen or Leave it, and then the sequency but short finish of this climb for a sweet pitch of climbing.

Hard! Pumpy and very few feet, big moves, lots of fun.

Sweet climb - You can work a rest in underneath the roof by jamming your back against the big flake. Plug in that pro and go go go. Pumpfest.

Pro is a little tricky, but there. Take small cams and wires.

Nice climb, really long. Be sure to bring some longer draws to belay from at the top anchors, otherwise it will be a fully hanging belay with very little movement for comfort. Also some cams (gold and red and around that size camalots) for use between the top bolt and anchors are really nice, but it could be run out, the moves aren't too hard, but at that point you have climbed a 130 feet or so of solid 5.9, so you could be a bit on the pumped side.

Very sweet, large runout to the top with some super sweet gym like holds. The shuts on this are DODGY! Worn halfway through, middle one spins around and is way out from the wall, right one the entire nut turns when you twist a little on the shut, and only the left seems good.

Done in the pouring rain with Mike. Very fun. All the climbers not keen enough to climb in the rain were watching us from the Shadows.

Hard! I can normally second 5.11, but this beast shut me down, VERY HARD.

Sustained. Second pitch is way long, be careful to save enough gear for the top. I had to start consolidating gear on biners and other stuff to make enough draws for the top.

Done with a wierd passive only rack, which made pro a tricky and time consuming task to place.

Awesome climb. Wild moves - boulder start, get the pro, climb up to a stance, place pro high, then commit to the wild layback. Crazy! Fire through before getting pumped out, get onto the ramp, then make the airy, wild traverse to the wide, angular crack in the rock. An akward move and then you reach through to the other side of Seneca on a giant jug, relish in the wind that comes through this crazy feature, plug in gear and shoot to the anchors. Wild pitch, action packed, as fun as it gets.

Cottonmouth to Venom in one is classic!

Great climb - insecure jams and insecure feet for the fun crux up top. If you like this, go try Lichen or Leave it, it's the same sort of climb except more solid jams and feet with bigger funner moves between them.