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Goldbug Finish 

5.12b

   

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Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.12b [details]
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Submitted By: lee hansche on Jan 22, 2008


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It's not so much that its a bad route it's just so reachy that if your not 7ft tall the holds are hard to get to... However if you can reach them (I'm 6'2" and I can just barely make the reaches) the moves are really cool the holds are great and the top out I found to be technical and super fun... If you like this style of climbing BIG moves to good crimps and a technical top out, hop on it...

Climb Goldbug (5.10b) or the Digger-bug link up (5.9) to the Goldbug anchor... Clip a long runner to the anchor and step right to the nice ledge...
There are very few moves but they are big ones... Move up to a good crimp left of the first draw... Make a huge move up and right to a half pad incut crimp... Make another big move up and left to a nice flat full pad crimp... The feet kinda suck here so making the last big move to a sloper is a bit challenging... once you get the sloper you make techy moves heading right until you can pull a mantel on to a ledge and climb a few easy moves to the anchors...


Location 

From the gold bug anchors head up and right following bolts up a short overhung wall...


Protection 

From the Goldbug anchor there are 4 bolts to a 2 bolt anchor...

Long draws may be helpful to reduce rope drag on the lower pitch...