December 2002 - Decapitator
Trail Rating - 4
Trip Leader: Chris Villarreal
Photos submitted by Chris Villarreal
Decapitator is a short boulder crawl with some small ledges and a really big wall at the top. I'd guess the trail is only a quarter mile, maybe slightly more.
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Chris's power steering was smoking a bit. The trail is pretty tame to this point, then it starts climbing with the boulders getting larger as you go.
There are a couple tricky spots towards the end. Jack got wedged between a rock and a hard place in the second picture.
Here's the wall at the top.
I gave the wall a couple tries.
One of the attempts I started to back down to try another line and I inverted one of the rear springs. At this point I pulled the winch cable and pulled myself up the wall.