Handsome and Well-Hung  5.11a

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Type:  Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet Consensus:  5.11a [details] FA:  Pliess, Augustino '83 Submitted By:  Ladd Raine on Apr 10, 2007 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (23) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Ladd pulling the last moves above the crux.

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Beautiful route.
This route climbs the amazing looking corner under the roof. Very tenuous moves stemming in the corner with small gear and finger locks/laybacks just out of reach. This route has a beginning, middle(crux) and end.

Crux of this climb is moving off a thin layback pinching a high undercling and deadpointing up and left with no feet. Smearing high and bumping up an right to a pinch then leaving your now comfortable undercling to get a jug way up there. Throw in a hand-jam and remember to breathe before finishing the 5.8+ moves to the anchors.


I got on the front page of the Register Herald 7/24/07(Beckley, WV) for leading this climb. Ladd Raine 'busting a move'

Location 

Obvious corner under huge roof at trailhead.

Protection 

1-3 inchers in the bottom section to small cams (blue-yellow aliens) through the crux. The upper section takes green aliens and protects well.

Lower from anchors.

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Ladd just entering the crux	Just past the crux. Circa '97.	Jeff making the reach on Handsome and Well-Hung...
Staring at the next few moves