North Crack 

FA:  Barry Corbet, Jake Breitenbach, Charles Plummer '56 Type:  Trad Consensus:  5.7 [details] Length:  3 pitches, 250 feet Views: 642 page views Submitted By: Peter Gram on Sep 8, 2002 Add Photo  Add Comment

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Confronting the steep bulge at the top of the crac...

Description 

This is a great climb. Start by climbing the first 2 pitches of the east face route on Spire Two. Then, when at the saddle between Spire Two and Balcony Point, climb up to the obvious beautiful splitter crack that goes almost to the summit of Balcony Point. Climb this, the hardest move being pulling through a bulgy crack to the top of the pillar.

Protection 

Standard Rack. The 3rd pitch is a perfect crack that eats up gear.

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Looking back to the cozy belay at the end of the p...