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Type: Trad, 1 pitch, 45 feet
Consensus: 5.7 [details]
FA: Lance & Dane Daugherty, 1967
Season: Fall to Spring
Submitted By: Orphaned on Mar 7, 2006

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Being Jack Pratley's second climb ever, I told him...

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Description 

Hiliter is a bit spicy, with a pretty good run to the first bolt. Best to know you're solid, or have a good set of spotters and a bouldering pad to fall back on (joke intended).

On the northwest side of The Wedge, climb up edges and crystals past two bolts to the top.


Location 

Only bolted line on the northwest side of The Wedge.


Protection 

Two bolts, 2-bolt anchor/rap on top.



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Jeff on the wedge

Jeff on the wedge

My attempt... even with the protection this was very scary!  Apparantly now there are houses everywhere in the background... Is that bar/restaurant still down there?  What was it, ties on the ceiling?

My attempt... even with the protection this was ve...


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By roman d
From: Pasadena, CA
Jan 10, 2010

Not sure this really deserves an R anymore. Tricky getting to first bolt, then cruise past one more on big holds to top.