Sword In The Stone 

FA:  Bruce Hildenbrand and Ron Olsen, 9/20/06 New Route:  Yes Type:  Sport Consensus:  5.9 [details] Length:  1 pitch, 70 feet Views: 1,205 page views Submitted By: Ron Olsen on Sep 21, 2006 Add Photo  Add Comment

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Bruce Hildenbrand moving onto the arete on the fir...

Description 

Sword In The Stone is a cool new sport route on the First Tier of Avalon. It climbs the face and knife-edge arete left of Mists of Avalon.

Start 25' left of Mists of Avalon, below some broken slabs with loose rock. Scramble up the slabs to a ledge below a small overhang. Climb up and left past three bolts (cracked horizontal hold in here) and several small overhangs to a stance at the base of the arete. Work up the knife-edge arete (crux) past three more bolts to a bulge. Clip a final bolt and cruise to the anchor.

Location 

On the First Tier of Avalon, 25' left of Mists of Avalon, below a knife-edge arete.

Protection 

7 bolts to a 2-bolt anchor. All bolts were drilled by hand by "Bosch-less Bruce".

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BETA PHOTO: Sword In The Stone. Climb up and left past severa...	BETA PHOTO: Sword In The Stone and The Mists of Avalon, as see...	BETA PHOTO: A close-up of the knife-edge arete.
BETA PHOTO: View from the trail at the start of the route.	Bruce Hildenbrand cranking the fun moves past the ...	Ron Olsen stepping up to a great horizontal edge a...
Sword In The Stone	Peter Dillon at the crux on the arete.	Glory!