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Kill all bad brown dogs 

5.10a

   

FA: Chip Ruckgaber and Eric Johnson
New Route: Yes
Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.10b/c [details]
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Submitted By: Brad Bond on Sep 15, 2001


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Tony Bubb on an early ascent of Kill All Bad Brown...


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About 100 ft left of where the topo on page 152 is cut off, an obvious large block sits in a roof about 30 ft. off the ground with cracks on each side of it. This route is the left crack and the obvious line on the formation.

Crank up the corner and worm around the roof, strait up and left to easier ground. Rap off a tree or hike up and left, then down.

Anyone who has spent time with Hooey -- Eric's Chesapeake Bay Retriever -- will appreciate the name.


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By Tony Bubb
From: Boulder, CO
May 27, 2002
rating: 5.10d

Here I go again- I know ratings are subjective, but... I did this one while wandering around up at Diamond head, prior to figuring out what I was getting on. Thus, I did this route without beta or bias as to it's grade.

I pulled up to the corner on the somewhat "iffy" rock. I was a little wet from the recent snow and melt-off, which explains the lichens. I was able to place enough gear (small cams on 2' runners) up under the roof to make me feel plenty safe for the roof moves. Stemming left under the roof to a foothold near the edge helped. I pulled up under the flake and around and could ALMOST reach a killer side-pull. instead of reaching the killer side-pull on the knife-blade feature, however, I pinched the edge and slapped around at the crack, moved both of my feet high end left and cranked like a fiend to match hands on the side-pull. From there it was good locks.

At 5'10" This felt like 5.10d. Once I had the side-pull it was 5.10a. I went up and down trying to grab that thing from many different feet. Now I don't know how tall you guys are, but I am guessing in the 6'0" range. Check your height for this one if you only lead 10a. In my opinion, it was harder than Tagger (10c), Grandmothers' Challenge (10c), Whiplash (10c), or Sooberb (10c).