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Beauty and the Beast 

5.10a

   

FA: Bingham, Sterret
Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.10a [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 90 feet
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Submitted By: Guy Humphrey on Jun 13, 2004


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Description 

This fun mixed route is located on the east side of Parking Lot Rock. It starts 15 ft to the right of Just Another Pretty Face.

Head up the flared left facing dihedral, place an RP, and pull on to the face. Load up on small nuts in the crack, and slab it to the only bolt. The moves left to the hand crack our the crux. The hand crack above is 5.8. End at the bolt anchor to the left or continue to the anchors on Funky bolt.


Protection 

nuts, TCU's, and a few hand size cams



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By James Naus
Aug 12, 2004

You can also place a #4 camalot in the starting flare. Also place 2 good med. stoppers where the crack ends at the roof, because it is a long way to the bolt.

By Nathan Fisher
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Sep 5, 2005
rating: 5.10a

I loved this lead, as it had a bit of everything. Nice flaring offwidth to start, followed by an easy face/crack sequence, followed by a bouldery move. Then some tenuous friction and an easy hand crack. If your seconding climber falls after un-clipping the bolt, they will swing and they will fall off the line and have a hard time getting back on line. No way to avoid this, just beware.

By susan peplow
From: what day is this?
Aug 14, 2007

Starting flare is more awkward than hard. Once you get established it's pretty easy to move up. Fun route, nice variety with easy hand crack at the top. We stopped short and used the chain anchors to the right for a TR and easy access down.

.5 TCU, 1 & 2" cams