This photo of the usual first pitch should clear up some of the confusion.

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This photo of the usual first pitch should clear up some of the confusion.

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Getting near the top of the crux pitch.

Mike Amato mantling out onto the start of the Vector Traverse.

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Rob Dillon

Jun 11, 2005

“This photo of the usual first pitch should clear up some of the confusion. ”

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