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BETA PHOTO: Pitch 1- Starts right of obvious roof in middle of...
Description
This is a quick way to get to the legendary 4th pitch of Topo or to Bolts to Somewhere.
Start in an easy crack system well to the right of the Bishop Jaggers crack, just left of some trees. Establish a belay as high as possible if you want to make it with a 50 meter rope - a 60 would provide some breathing room.
Climb the crack then past two overlap-roofs(5.8), then up a bolted slab (5.10a) to Topo's third belay.
Pitch 1 starts up moderate cracks as described above. When crack run out, make a few spicy 5.9 slab moves to reach crack under 2nd roof (on right side of picture). We then encountered 2 lines of modern bolts that were about 7 ft apart. my partner climbed the left line of bolts which seemed harder than 10a (maybe 10b?). This was a long pitch 170ft or so. We started belaying from the ground, which created lots of rope drag for the 5.9 traverse-best to scramble up 75 feet of low angle crack to set first belay.
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