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Ride The Lightning 

5.11b

   
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Type: Sport, 1 pitch
Consensus: 5.11 [details]
FA: Kent Benesch, Tom Blust, Doug Phillips, 1987
Submitted By: mark d on Mar 20, 2006

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Description 

A thin start on good rock gives way to easier climbing.


Location 

This climb starts to the left of Fingers Of Fate on a ledge.


Protection 

bolts



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Matt Johnson on "Ride the Lightning" at Smith Rock, OR. <br />Photo by: Stephanie Hong

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By Wolfgang Braun
From: Beavercreek, Oregon
Oct 14, 2008
rating: 5.11c

I found this route to be pretty thin, and painful. It definitely eased the higher you got on the route.