Echo Rock Area

United States / California / San Bernardino County

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Year Climb Grade Climber Style Date
First ascent. 18 sessions.

Graded 13d at the time as Cosgrove had not yet climbed 5.14.

It took me somewhere like 18 days to do it, I think, I had never climb a 14a and the grade did not exist in California, but a 14a Euro-climber tried and failed on the line, shortly after my red-point. He later traveled to Smith Rock and climbed, JB Tribout, To Bolt or Not to Be, very quickly. So, I would say that Alan [Moore]'s rating should stand, as at the time I really didn't know what 13d or 14a was, just that it was damn hard for me and I had to give it a number.

I was in school, guiding full time and training, I had no time or money to go on the road and repeat other 14a, but spent the time climbing routes close to home. I named the climb after FDR plan to put America back to work in the Great Depression, but that metaphor was lost on the many rap bolt haters, who thought I was rubbing it in their face. I felt the small compromise in ethic would lead to higher numbers. (Scott Cosgrove in 2013, after the second ascent)

Climb Grade # Recorded Ascents Ascents Recorded Between
New Deal 8b+ 2 31st January 1988 – 1st January 2011