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The greatest unfinished problems in Victoria 29-Dec-2009 At 3:04:46 PM Paulie

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On 15/03/2007 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 11/02/2007 andyR wrote:
>>Carthedral Pinnacle at Buffalo, there's a huge roof above the first belay
>>ledge of Sultan which may go ... even better, it may go into the awesome
>>arete which heads to the summit of Cathedral Pinnacle...anyone else spotted
>>this line?
>
>I abseil checked out this arete and visually inspected the roof from underneath
>back in about yr 2000 for aid possibilities..

Yeah, we checked a couple of potential lines off the top of the Cathedral block including a LHV from the start of the 3rd pitch of Sultan up the featured slab (a tad contrived - why climb a slab when you have the last pitch of Sultan in front of you!); an ascent of the abseil wall (did some of the moves on TR but linking anything was well beyond my abilities); and the aforementioned arete which would definately go but also be a tad contrived (have to climb something then abseil into it...not worth it IMO).

I think every climber worth his/her salt has looked at that roof line from the end of the 1st pitch of Sultan and "mind climbed" it...some of us have even attempted the line with a bottom belay and jumar on a fixed line :)