Chicken of the Sea  5.9

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Type:  Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet Consensus:  5.9 [details] FA:  Submitted By:  Andrew Mertens on Jun 30, 2010 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (12) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

BETA PHOTO: Chicken of the Sea: from the right leaning cracks ...

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Description 

Climb the face up to the hanging corner (which Trotsky follows), and break left up the steep, juggy flake ladder. Pull up on to the slab(the guidebook called this the crux, but I though the steep climbing was harder, if more secure)and follow the small, left facing corner to a ledge and a gear anchor. Alternatively, traverse right from the ledge and belay from the slings at the top of Trotsky's Corner.

Location 

The steep face before the stone stairs on the right end of the precipice. Just left of Trotsky's Corner.

Protection 

Standard rack.

The first twenty feet doesn't have that much gear, but you can get a bomber #7-8 nut in a fingerlock slot about twelve feet up. Other than that, finger sized cams work great behind the flakes.

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BETA PHOTO: Top portion of Chicken by the Sea