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Take a couple TCUs if you want to protect the ledge fall potential getting to the second bolt. Also handy between the second and fourth bolt. That is the nice thing about a bolted crack.

Dave McCanless and I did the first ascent of what is now named "Hours for dollars" on August 16, 1983. We called the route "PN" (long story about that name, involves an old girlfriend), and it was 5.6 A3 at the time (remember this was the early 80's). I'm surprised that no one didn't notice the piton scars we left. It was a very hot day, which was part of the reason we resorted to 3 aid points. I also pushed off a very large block (3' X 3' X3') block while on lead. There was a short first ascent note in the CLIMBING MAGAZINE Basecamp section, of the December 83' issue about this route.

Unfortunately, documentation of these half rope climbs is sparse, at best, prior to the mid 80's when high quality guides emerged as the norm. Erickson's guide from 1980 was a good early effort to get things cobbled together for the Boulder area, however, nothing like that existed for Clear Creek. We have always tried to be on the lookout for old pins or other evidence of prior passage, but these are frequently absent from the more obscure crags. Prior to the mid 80's, peolple just climbed and there was no effort made to get every new route logged in and properly attributed. The process of collecting, attributing, and presenting all of the climbing facts falls largely on the shoulders of the guide writer who simply cannot get a host of unjpublished data assembled. Errors exist in even the best guides and this seems to be the nature of the beast. CB.com, however, can help in this regard since it is open to anyone with access to the internet.