Purgatory  5.10a R

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Type:  TR, 1 pitch, 75 feet Consensus:  5.10a [details] FA:  ?? Submitted By:  Andrew on May 24, 2006 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (3) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

This is the obvious slab on the climbers left side of the rocks. There are three nasty bolts if you wanted to lead this thing but I would not trust my life to them. The crux is the first ten to fifteen feet of this and it’s not protected. There are five routes listed in Hubbel's guide in the same area as this climb, all are variations and end up in the same place after the first ten to twenty feet of climbing. It’s best to set up a top rope on this climb and just do all the variations down low, good 5.10 slab practice, and nothing more.

Protection 

There’s a set of old nasty bolts that we equalized and backed up by slinging a stout tree for a TR anchor. Just bring a lot of slings.