Sequency 5.10 climbing up a featured crack leads to one or two dicey traverse moves that span between the end of the crack and a series of positive holds. The upper half of the is featured by a series of horiztonals that climb like a ladder.
Location
This route is just left of Arm and Hammer. This start begins on a ledge and follows a incipient crack.
Protection
Bolts with a 2 bolt anchor.
HOWEVER! The easy upper reaches (5.6?) of this climb are protected with 2 pins, which comes as a shock to those spoiled by the superior bolting at Rumney. If you really wanted to bring gear a #0.5 and #0.75 BD cams and a couple of large nuts (no pun intended) would get your through as safely as you could want.
I love this route...I climbed it a bunch of times last season... It works well as a warm up for harder climbing due to the fact that the route is "long" but the hard part is brief...it is also worthy of the effort if 5.11 is your limit, just don't come unhinged when you have to run out the easy stuff after the crux...or bring some gear....
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