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Type: Trad, Sport, Alpine, 80 feet
Consensus: 5.10d [details]
FA: Scott Carson & Andy Ross
New Route: Yes
Submitted By: apross on Oct 2, 2011

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Description 

Start up a small left facing corner, then face climb up and then left onto the arete. Some tricky moves back right leads you to a flake and then to the base of nice fingercrack.
Up this to the anchor. Great climb, almost 4 stars.


Location 

Starts 20ft right of Monkey Fist on the front of the obvious orange buttress.


Protection 

Bolts.
Yellow and small wire at start, blue between bolts 2 and 3.
Red, black, yellow and double orange's for the upper crack.
All cams Metolius.



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Scott sending with style.

Scott sending with style.

The nice crack at the top.

The nice crack at the top.


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By Boissal
From: Small Lake, UT
Jul 2, 2012
rating: 5.10d

Gritstone ethics on rhyolite? Expect minimalistic bolting on this one coupled with great rock and some of the coolest sequences in the Jungle. Oh, did I mention it was one of the longest lines around?

The start is thin and intimidating, the climbing to first bolt being in the no-fall zone. Scamper up past a second bolt to a long section of discontinuous thin crack with unnerving gear (a bomber small nut is key) to two more bolts. The crux lurks there and seems to offer a few options to skirt a blank section. Latch onto the thank-Jeebus flake and you gain access to 30' or so of fingers to off-fingers crack to finish things off.

While I'm reluctant to give 4 stars to two of Andy's routes that are within 100' of each other, the quality of the climbing makes it a no-brainer.

By grk10vq
Administrator
Jul 2, 2012

brilliant

By apross
Jul 5, 2012

Thanks lads, glad you liked it, both Scott and I thought it could be 4 stars. Super route.
Have to say, if we had used grit ethics there would have been bugger all bolts, so think yourselves lucky:)

By Roy Suggett
Jul 10, 2012

Holy in-your-face-rock, Batman-Ross! VERY stout lead on this outstanding route. Thanks for your hard work down here. Can't wait to have you come back and add to The Jungle's repertoire.