BETA PHOTO: Body Count. Continuously difficult thin edging. Th...
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Body Count is the fourth route from the left on the First Tier, just right of Slayer. It is on the left side of the obvious near-vertical face. Follow the bolts up the face to surmount the obvious roof above. The crux is fun and technical slab climbing.
2 things: first of all this climb felt harder than 11a. I went right of the first two bolts and maybe should have gone left?? Also, be careful on the second clip. Making that clip was the crux of the whole climb for me and if you came off before clipping you would certainly hit the ground quite hard. Other than that fun, crimpy and uber pumpy climbing. ung
This climb is reasonably fun, but the fun is dampened by the close proximity of the lines left and right, which produced an unpleasant "I-wonder-if-these-holds-are-on" mental debate. Not to mention questions about which bolts to head toward.
The climbing itself is pretty straightforward crimping, with a couple of balncy moves. The line right of this is better defined, and has more interesting moves, in my opinion. Maybe I was just cranky.
By Kyle Turner From: Broomfield, CO Oct 16, 2006 rating: 5.11a/b
This climb is thin and balancy to start, but really well protected. I'd say its got a couple of 11a/b moves in the middle but the top is 9+. Another solid climb at Avalon.
First Tier
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