Absolutely Free Center (and Left)

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Absolutely Free Center (and Left)

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Looking up at the start of the climb

Route Overlay for Absolutely Free & Positively 4th Street.

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Doug Hemken

Jun 9, 2009

“Absolutely Free Center (and Left)”

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An angle of the Valley I had not seen before

Looking up at the start of the climb

Absolutely Free Center (and Left)

Route Overlay for Absolutely Free & Positively 4th Street.

The splitter 5.9 hand crack of Pitch 2.

Approach beta.

Not a bad view

Looking up the final 5.9 OW pitch.

flake on the final pitch

Three options for Pitch 3: fingercrack (left), offwidth (center), layback (right). All are 5.9.

Entering the chimney

Dave Silverman pauses for gear in the splitter pitch

Lauren Morrison

Absolutely Free- View from the start of the scramble.

On the approach to the base of the route. Go this way, left through the trees. Don't be suckered up and right too soon.

Route Overlay for Absolutely Free.

Sean Ghant enjoying the final moves on the last pitch.

Rappelling from the chockstone at the top of the route. Need a 70m rope for this rappel. Note: chock stone loose as of Oct 2021. May want to walk off instead.

Lauren stabs a foot as she laybacks past the off-hands

The last part of Pitch 2.

Looking up at the start of the climb. We built an anchor at the bottom of the photo incase I blew it immediately. Not sure if this is the official start but it worked well for us

This is the beginning of proper climbing. Don't go left like did. Nothing on the gully. You can go left, middle or right at this point. Enjoy it!

Start

Winter ascent. HA!

The chimney start on P1. I had to hang my backpack off my harness.

4th/low5th scramble to start of route.

Dave looks over the off-hands pitch

Absolutely Free, taking off on the thin hands.

Bolted stations were established in March 2017 at the tops of Pitches 1 and 2. You can rap the route with a single 70.

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