Plan A  5.11b

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Type:  Trad, 2 pitches, 200 feet Consensus:  5.11b [details] FA:  Hurley & Reveley, 1976 Submitted By:  Greg Sievers on Aug 25, 2006 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (3) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

John Tormalehto leading off the deck. Plan A - P1.

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Description 

A serious undertaking.
P1 - Boulder up thin cracks - solid 5.10 and make an awkward traverse left. Proceed up the bulging, slanting 'Lumpy Funk' crux crack.
Belay or P2- continue up the right facing corner just left of Man Hole Cover's Chimney to the ledge/Terrace.
P2 or 3 - "Fight through the left roof crack above the Lower Terrace, .10a, and finish up the summit fin". (Gillett)

Location 

Book Mark Pinnacle - left of Manhole Cover.

Protection 

Lumpy double rack.

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John running it out on the traverse P1.

John Tormalehto learning the Plan (crux).