Type: Trad, 110 ft (33 m)
FA: ?? If not yet climbed, Kevin Buckingham 16 Jun 2012
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Shared By: Kevin Buckingham on Jun 16, 2012
Admins: Andrew Gram, Nathan Fisher, Perin Blanchard, GRK, D C

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Climb the chimney/Gully system right of Aqua Velvet. Pretty obvious line. If you come searching for guano, this is the place. A nice heaping serving meets you about 1/3 of the way up. BEWARE of loose rock - Belayer should have a helmet, climber should use caution.

At the top, there is a nice chockstone to sling if you want to rap straight down. Option two is to CAREFULLY avoide kicking down rock and traverse to Aqua Velvet anchors and belay your second up (With directional protection). Drag was surprisingly not bad (with plenty of runners).

Decent climb - some crack, some face, some chimney. My motivation was being in a party of 3, having plenty of trad gear, and wanting to do some lead soloing.

I wouldn't be surprised if this had been climbed before, but now we know for sure :)

Again - LOOSE ROCK

Location Suggest change

Right of Aqua Velvet, in the chimney/gulley.

Protection Suggest change

Nuts and cams, a few decent finger-hand size placements. No need to BD 5 or 6, but found a 4 useful toward the start. Beware of placements in loose rock.

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