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Espresso 

5.12a

   

FA: Kevin Leary (TR), Vern Clevenger (lead)
Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.12a [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 60 feet
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Submitted By: Jon duSaint on Dec 14, 2006


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Description 

Amazing steep thin crack.


Protection 

Gear to 2", with an emphasis on .75" and below



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By Alex
Sep 12, 2007
rating: 5.11c/d

This is a great, short pitch of finger locks...Its way SHARP!! Tape your fingers because its sharpness may be the deciding factor to send or not. Probably not quite 5.12 as compared to other routes in the nearby areas (11c/d)...Not as hard as Heart Of Stone (another Clevenger route)...Better rack beta would be a 3.5 Friend in the starting flake. A good, sideways medium stopper once standing in the crack. Then, doubles of Yellow and Red Aliens to a 1.5 Friend and then another medium nut or two. Because of rope drag from the anchor its not a good TR. Walk off way to the back and around.