Late October I spent the day in North Tahoe enjoying warm conditions and exciting basalt rock on the Twin Crag formations just East above HWY 89 between Tahoe City and Alpine Meadows. Amanda and I got up to the cliffs around noon and set up a top rope anchor on the 4Star 5.7 Chris's Toe. This was a trad route that wanders just a little bit, looks as though it protects well with a rack up to size 3, and has chains at the top you can rap off. When we return I'd love to lead this route. We also climbed on By Any Fair Means off the same anchor, a 10- trad route climbers left of Chris's Toe. The beginning of this route climbs like 5.8 but the crux comes as you do a very steep virtually completely inverted roof hand jam traverse followed by a hand jam mantle about 1/2way up the climb. I felt this section went at about 10+ and the folks we were climbing near that afternoon seemed to each agree that it could be sandbagged. Amanda had an opportunity to do her first "guide mode" belay using the ATC and we really enjoyed just spending the day together. Afterwards we got an early dinner at Tahoe Brewing Company and took a walk near the Lake.
Personal Review of Area: Rock/Climb Quality 6/10 - Size 6/10 - Accessibility 8/10
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