Free Radical  5.13a

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Type:  Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet Consensus:  5.13a [details] FA:  ccox, Bloom Submitted By:  Colin Cox on Jun 2, 2008 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (2) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

John Crawley moves through superb technical climbi...

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Description 

Free Radical shares the start of Pharside, then traverses left after the 2nd bolt and climbs an arc through the beautiful, colorful face, then finishes with an amazing crux at a thin black water streak. This is one of the best and most beautiful routes at Solitude. Lots of varied climbing on good rock and holds, with a four star crux guarding the chains. A good variation to Free Radical avoids the final crux by continuing the arc all the way back into the finishing arete of Pharside - Barracuda 12b.

Location 

Located on the beautiful face just past the ladder.

Protection 

Bolts to anchor

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John setting up into the incredible technical crux...	John firing off the last hard move of Free Radical...	Free Radical involves this little arete move on th...