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 Peak:  Little Bear Peak
 Route:  West Ridge and Hourglass
 Range:  Sangre de Cristo
 Posted By:  BruceTheriault
 Date of Info:  8/18/2014
 Date Posted:  8/21/2014
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Hourglass and fixed ropes: On August 18th we climbed Little Bear and inspected the fixed ropes in the Hourglass. There were two ropes tied together that went from the anchor to the bottom (400ft?). The top rope (pink) we knotted in numerous places to isolate the damage to various parts of the rope. The lower (11mm blue) one seemed to be in very good shape. However, I was dismayed when I examined the anchor. The existing fixed ropes were attached to a single piece of webbing and a rap ring. One of the pieces of webbing was partly cut. I reenforced the entire anchor system with a piece of climbing rope and fixed an old, but in good shape, green 9mm, 50m rope to the reenforced anchor. The newly installed green rope will get you about 150 ft down the Hourglass close to the lower blue rope (no knots) that extends to the bottom. We rapped the green rope and did about 20 feet of down climbing on easy 3rd class rock and then reconnected to the blue rope to finish the rap to the bottom. This allowed us to avoid the upper rope with all the knots and made for a smoother and quick descent.


Comments or Questions
jmanner
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Or...
8/22/2014 4:53pm
...you could have left it alone instead of increasing to the garbage.



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