Panther Gorge Climbing Resources – New Routes-Reports-Interactive Map-Photo Beta

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Added 2 new routes: Climb After Slime & You Moss be Kidding Me! on August 6 with Alan Wechsler. The routes are better than the names might suggest...
See #27 in list above.

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Added a 600' 5.8+X route to Marcy's East Face on August 27th-Revelations. See #27 in the list above.

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Added 2 new Haystack routes: Psalm 23 & Windjammer. Both are fun 5.7s. See # 29 above.

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Added a short easy ice route on Haystack (Kitty Cake) and did another ascent of By Tooth and Claw on Marcy. Hopefully the weather plays nice over the next few weeks for another trip or two--the ice is fat! See trip #30 above.

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We've been after this ice smear for a couple years and finally got it on February 18th. Chimaera 275' (WI3-). See trip #31 above.

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Panther Gorge gets a WI5- & 3+ on March 10: Ride the Lightning & Skip the Lightning. Trip #32 above.

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Added "Slacker Cracker" on a newly opened wall--the Chimney Wall. This cliff hosts a large chimney with a vertical trap dike.

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Added Marcy's Great Chimney (aka Empty Tomb) & All Ryled Up on the Chimney Wall on June 15. The Chimney is a vertical basaltic trap dike.

2017 August update: Dave Jackson contacted us and claimed 1st ascent of the chimney proper in September of 1978! A new bit of history!

http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2017/06/marcys-great-chimney-new-climb-mt-marcys-trap-dike.html

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Added Anorthofright to Marcy's East Face on August 27. It went at 5.9- / 710'

http://www.summitpost.org/panther-gorge-mt-marcy-anorthofright-5-9/1005961

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Added Panther's Pinnacle to Marcy's Chimney Wall on September 16. It went at 5.9 / 250'

http://www.summitpost.org/panther-gorge-panther-s-pinnacle/1007725

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Added Spiritus Draconis (WI4+) to Marcy's Chimney Wall area on Feb. 1, 2018.

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Added John 3:16 (WI4) & PG-13 (WI4) to Mt. Haystack's V Wall on 2018 March 24. Time to take a break until June!

https://www.summitpost.org/panther-gorge-spring-ice-climbing-on-haystack-john-3-16-and-pg-13/1017200

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I haven't posted an update in a while for various reasons. I figured I'd cover all of this summer's development at once.

All the Panther Gorge excitement this year was during June.

1. Haystack (No Man's Land)-Paws Off (5.8) (w/Steven St. Pierre) 2018 June 9.
2. Marcy (Agharta Wall)-Moonraker Runout (5.8+) (w/Ken Hebb) 2018 June 16.
3. Marcy (Panther Den)-Castle Column (5.9) (w/Ken Hebb) 2018 June 17.

Adam Crofoot, Alan Wechsler, and I then added Free Soul (5.9 X) on Big Slide. The route should probably be rated XXX...

I know this isn't Panther Gorge, but the details are here for those interested: https://www.summitpost.org/soul-free...untain/1024275

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Finally got on an aesthetic line south of the big Marcy climbs and added Apex Predator on January 5th, 2019. ...and introduced a new friend to the Gorge.

https://www.summitpost.org/panther-gorge-apex-predator-wi4-5/1028296

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New Routes

Development's slowing down a little, but we got a couple things done in June over 3 visits (1 was guiding up a 2014 route).

• Haystack (Ramp Wall arete)-Lioness Rampant (top rope) (5.11d) (w/Allison Rooney) 2019 June 8.
• Marcy (Feline Wall)-Cracks of My Tears (5.10a) (w/Loren Swears) 2019 June 28.

Links to these are in the main post.