{"id":6863,"date":"2012-04-26T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2012-04-26T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T23:28:27","slug":"up-up-and-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/26\/smith-rocks\/up-up-and-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Up, Up, And Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 26, 2012<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a fantastic week in Smith Rocks!\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, after some smaller objectives earlier in the week, we set our sights high and went after one of America&#8217;s classic climbs &#8211; Monkey Face, via the west face variation.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Monkey\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as the locals call it, is a 500 ft freestanding pillar.\u00c2\u00a0 From the top you can see all of central Oregon, an absolutely stunning view.\u00c2\u00a0 We started out at 8am and hit the ground safe and sound by 3pm, quite a long day, but very rewarding.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6863 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG00183-20120423-14081.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[6863]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG00183-20120423-14081-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6865\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6865'>\n\t\t\t\tSmith Rocks. Bend, Oregon.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG00184-20120424-0832.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[6863]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG00184-20120424-0832-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6866\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6866'>\n\t\t\t\tSmith Rocks\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG953897.jpeg' rel=\"lightbox[6863]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG953897-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6864\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6864'>\n\t\t\t\tMonkey Face\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG00186-20120425-1121.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[6863]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG00186-20120425-1121-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6867\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6867'>\n\t\t\t\tMid route on Monkey Face\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The route consists of five pitches of 5.8 climbing.\u00c2\u00a0 The most difficult pitch was the aid pitch.\u00c2\u00a0 Climbing up 16 bolts to the mouth of the Monkey.\u00c2\u00a0 This bolt ladder takes climbers up incredibly steep and overhanging terrain.\u00c2\u00a0 Mark, Brannon, and Mimi were all able to cut their teeth on free hanging rope ascension, a very useful skill for crevasse rescue, big wall climbing, and fixed rope travel.\u00c2\u00a0 The final pitch of the route goes out of the mouth and off Panic point, the most difficult 5.6 ever.\u00c2\u00a0 Its incredibly positive climbing but the exposure is hard to stomach, what an adventure! Once on top the team descends via a 200ft free hanging rappel.<\/p>\n<p>The Smith Rocks seminar has been quite rewarding.\u00c2\u00a0 Each day builds on the skills learned the previous day. A great learning environment for any climber!<\/p>\n<p>Austin Shannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 26, 2012 It&#8217;s been a fantastic week in Smith Rocks!\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, after some smaller objectives earlier in the week, we set our sights high and went after one of America&#8217;s classic climbs &#8211; Monkey Face, via the west face variation.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Monkey\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as the locals call it, is a 500 ft freestanding pillar.\u00c2\u00a0 From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smith-rocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6871,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}