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Description
Start just left of Jabberwocky on the same platform. Make a few easy moves to set up for the first crux. Manage through this and head up on easy but pumpy moves. At times it is unavoidable (at the grade) to avoid using a few holds on Rumplestiltskin, without moving off the intended bolt line. Continue up managing the pump to another crux. Pull this and head up to a no hands rest, rest up and merge into Rumplestiltskin past two more bolts to the anchors.
Contains a few hard moves for a tower route, but there are plenty of jugs to rest on.
A new route so the rock is still a little chossy, should clean up with time.
Location
Between Rumplestiltskin and Jabberwocky. Starts just left of Jabberwocky on the small platform
Protection
11? Bolts to Anchors, Last 2 bolts are shared with Rumplestiltskin
Looked like it was a little squeezed to me but I have not been on it. I will reserve judgment until after I climb it. I hope it is not one of those climbs where you have to force yourself not to move 3 feet right to the obvious line of holds. I don't mind sharing a hold or two if the lines are naturally separate as most routes at the tower are. I don't like totally contrived routes where the bolt line is a few feet off the line of easier holds so you have to stay on the bolt line to maintain the grade. It would be sad to see that start happening at the tower.
Rumor has it that this climb will eventually get it's own anchors, making it a better and more independant line.
Fortunatly 90% of this line uses its own holds while climbing the natural line. It is the other 10%, the closeness of the bolts between this and Rumplestiltskin, and the currently shared anchors that make this squeezed imo.
The name is something like White Queen or White Blizzard or something, but I can't remember exactly.
North (L) Side of the tower
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