Mushrooms With Hefner  5.12+

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Type:  Trad, 2 pitches, 150 feet Consensus:  5.12+ [details] FA:  Chris Kalous, Alan Carne, Chick Holtkamp New Route:  Yes Submitted By:  chris Kalous on Mar 26, 2009 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

Pitch One: Easy Chimney with a face move to gain a ledge. 25m. Step onto face at bolt or climb slightly higher in the chimney and step left. 5.10.

Pitch two: Easy 2" crack to laser beam 1" crack through a slight bulge. Broken 1" and 3/4" gains the chains. 22m. 5.12+.

Location 

This is located on a south facing pillar to the right of the Rock Lobster wall, but before Broken Tooth. The start is behind a pillar up the hill to the right toward Broken Tooth (scramble through chockstones to the start). P1 is an obvious chimney with a bolt at some face holds and then a ledge. Pitch 2 is the laser beam visible from the hike up and below the pillar.

Protection 

Pitch one: #6 Camalot, bolt, 1" piece.

Pitch Two: Two 2" pieces, seven 1" pieces, two 3/4" pieces (in that order).

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The crux of pitch two

Pitch 2