Jaws II

Posted on 15. Oct, 2007 by B3 in News

Vasya Vorotnikov has climbed the Dave Graham route Jaws at Rumney on the Waimea Wall. His is the first repeat after a crucial hold broke and he has suggested the grade of 5.15a (he has also changed the name to Jaws II). If the grade sticks this will be the hardest route east of the Mississippi, and only the second possible .15a in the country. The other is Tommy Caldwell’s Flex Luthor at the Fortress near Rifle, CO.

DG on Jaws

7 Responses to “Jaws II”

Max

16. Oct, 2007

a bit more info: not one but a lot of the key holds have broken, resulting in two boulder problems around V12 in the middle of the route (from what i have heard)…the higher of these two cruxes involves either a huge double dyno or a slightly smaller dyno off a s@#$ sidepull. also, the terrible undercling pocket on the China Beach part (at the end of the route) was soaking wet during the send…GNAR!!
wade david

16. Oct, 2007

JE you are way to obsessed with climbing
rjtrials

16. Oct, 2007

Max,
Didnt Vasya and Zeb fall @ the wet hold last spring?

Props to Vasya for sticking with it. Long term projects are so psychologically hard!

RJ
Max

17. Oct, 2007

i did hear that Vasya fell in the upper China Beach section sometime last year, so i am assuming it was there. but yeah. that is super proud.
jacob

28. Oct, 2007

crazy
jbizzle

30. Oct, 2007

also he didnt techniclly change the name to jaws2 that was just what it was reffered to while it was a project. or it was called broken jaws.
jamie

30. Oct, 2007

I’m not sure what counts “technically” or not, but Vasya has it as “Jaws II” on his 8a.nu scorecard