White Whale is one of the popular moderate climbs at Lumpy. It offers three pitches of fun 5.6-5.7 climbing on excellent rock, with a mellow descent. It just looked too fun to pass up.
Cassie and I climbed this as the first of two routes. We swung leads, with Cassie leading Pitches 1 and 3. In fact, these were Cassie's first two real trad leads. I never would have guessed if she had not told me! When we finished, it looked like the forecasted afternoon thundershowers were still holding back, so we decided to head over to the nearby Bookend and climb
The Sorcerer.
