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Hypotenuse 

5.9

   

FA: Dan Hare and Scott Woodruff, 1979.
Type: Trad, TR
Consensus: 5.9 [details]
Length: 1 pitch
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Submitted By: Michael Komarnitsky on Jan 1, 2001


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Hypotenuse climbs the dihedral, not the more obvio...


Description 

One of Tuck's defining features is a large left facing dihedral that arcs up steeply into a roof. In this dihedral is a very small crack that runs the length of the vertical dihedral. Follow this corner in, up, and finally out through the top.


Protection 

Very tiny stuff for lead, slings for tr.



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Placing a blue Alien in the ceiling after several small nuts. The right wall is pretty blank here. There are no particularly hard moves--it's mostly insecure, with not much for your hands.

Placing a blue Alien in the ceiling after several ...


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By Peter Spindloe
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From: North Vancouver, BC
Oct 24, 2001

Fun! Well named -- Tony Bubb calls it a study in the angles of forces.

By Ivan Rezucha
Oct 24, 2003
rating: 5.9

Good climb. We wondered why, in Rossiter's Boulder Canyon guide, Hypotenuse was starred but Boiling Point, the more obvious and nice looking cracks to the right was not starred. Hypotenuse has interesting stemming moves. There are sloped ledges and holds on the left wall, but the right wall is essentially blank much of the way. Gear ranges from brass nuts and microcams to #1 and #2 Camalots.

By Ivan Rezucha
Oct 24, 2003
rating: 5.9

I see I am wrong about Boiling Point being the cracks right of Hypotenuse. Boiling Point seems to be further right around the corner, facing the road. What are the cracks just right of Hypotenuse?