Outer Space  5.8 PG13

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Type:  Trad, 1 pitch, 120 feet Consensus:  5.8 [details] FA:  Art Gran, Jim Geiser, 1959 Submitted By:  John Peterson on Mar 11, 2006 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (9) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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A fine route that gets surprisingly little traffic. Not the place for a beginning 5.8 leader.

This is one of the first routes in the Nears. When the trail first hits the rock, look up and locate the huge Kansas City roof. This route starts just a little bit left. The upper part of obvious - a V-shaped corner about 10' high leading to a roof. The start is harder to locate - look for a long, leftward traverse into the V-corner.

P1: To reach this traverse, climb up easily to a stance below a small roof. Clip the pin above, drop in a nut to back it up and then commit to the crux, a traverse up and left just above a small overhang. This traverse is tenuous at best and there's not much beyond the pin to protect you. After finally reaching good holds, drop in a piece for your second and continue to traverse to the corner. Then up and left to an anchor. 5.8 PG, 120'.

You can go up to the trees here but most people rap the anchor.

Protection 

Standard Gunks rack