Rain Dance  5.9

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Type:  Trad, Alpine, Grade III Consensus:  5.9 [details] FA:  Doug Byerly and Kath Pyke Submitted By:  paco on Jun 1, 2001 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (2) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

1st pitch of Rain Dance, 5.6.

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Rain Dance certainly has some super fun cracks on quality rock, but I don't think this route deserves three stars either. If coming up to do it, make sure you do another route the same day (see Refugium).

The 1st 5.9 pitch on this route consists of beautiful finger cracks up a perfect slab. In my opinion, the best pitch of either Rain Dance or Refugium. From there continue via variations (the .9+ is fun but thin) to the top. Note: watch out for loose chicken heads on top of last pitch!

Protection 

Standard, high peak rack with some extra thin gear.

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