Type: Trad, 700 ft (212 m), 6 pitches, Grade II
FA: ? Bolted by J & B Smoot 2005
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Shared By: bsmoot on Sep 26, 2007
Admins: Andrew Gram, Nathan Fisher, Perin Blanchard, GRK, D C

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P1- Friction up the beautiful, sometimes slippery slab to a belay on a rib of rock.(5.8 or 5.9)

P2- Move left to a prominent curving jam crack. From the top of the crack, move right out onto the face to a bolt. Belay 60' higher (5.8)... great pitch.

P3- Traverse right 20' and up to a roof. climb over this (bolt here) and move up to a fixed belay.

P4- Climb over several roofs to the midway ledge. A short distance above is the fixed belay at a good ledge.

P5- Ascend the slab above past bolts and pins on cool featured rock to a belay below roofs.

P6- Climb up to a fixed pin. The roofs above require some cams. Once above the roofs, move up past a bolt on the left to the final belay (may be wet). Rap route.

Sometimes cold temps can make the slab feel more slick. It's possible that the Jam crack on pitch 2 is a section of the Beckey/Kor route

We named this route after the dead goat we found at the start of the climb.

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Start 30' above and right of the lowest point of the slab.

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Small rack up to a #2 camalot.

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