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"tween Slabutt & Spiral" 
8mm 
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Svengali 
Tourette's 

8mm 

M7

   

FA: rich purnell, chris alstrin
Type: Trad, Mixed
Consensus: WI4 M7 [details]
Length: 1 pitch
Season: mid-winter
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Submitted By: Anonymous Coward on Dec 13, 2004


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  • This route has access issues. Please read the note available on the Vail Ice page.
  • This route has access issues. Please read the note available on the Spiral Staircase area page.

    • CA's slate just prior to the send of 8mm.


    Description 

    Climb up a shallow corner on small (small) holds. The rock climbing here is technical and fragile. Pull the lip to a sheet of ice no more than 1/2" thick and about 20 feet long. The ice does take a stubby just under the roof but then again there are anchors at that point.

    LOCATION: OK the route is 15' left of Tourette's (the 3 bolt slab route) and Dragon's Teeth which are all left of Spiral Staircase, on the same band of rock as Spiral Staircase.


    Protection 

    4 bolts with a 2 bolt anchor


    Toprope Protection 

    no



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    By Matt Juth
    From: Evergreen
    Feb 8, 2005

    Great route. A lot better than Tourette's. The ice is thicker now than during the FA. You can get a stubby in lower, making it useful...