Todd at the mental crux of his problem The Great C...
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The sprawling Los Angeles County is home to more than 10 million residents. The city of Los Angeles itself (pop. 4 million) is the second largest in the United States (New York City is first).
The San Fernando Valley (to the northwest of the L.A. Basin) and Santa Monica Mountains host an assortment of climbing on primarily soft sandstone. Malibu Creek State Park, located off the 101 freeway near Calabasas, is a funky volcanic rock type.
Try and figure this one out without beta, you'll be glad you did - a wonderful unlikely sequence of almost zen-like moves leads to a small crimper (used be a nice jug) then smearing and stemming (crux) lead to the final slopers.......[more]
I just wanted to clear up some information about "the slabs." It is actually called Corpse Wall due to the corpse we found at the bottom of the route "R.I.P. Arete" where the cross is located. All the routes were put up by Abraham E. Benjamin M. Brahm H. Darren A. Mike O. I also wanted to add that the corpse was a guy that committed suicide. We know this because he left a note. There was a strong effort to make everything bomber. We did not put anchors on the top of all the routes because it was not needed and would have been a much bigger footprint.
The routes have all been put up in the last 5 years. There are some more recent routes that have not yet been bolted but can be TR. I would also like to add that there are some random bolts on the wall that someone put in for no known or obvious reason. There are some routes that use pro as well as draws. In general. the routes were never intended to be sport routes. If anyone's interested, I'll post the names and ratings of all the routes in the next couple of weeks.
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