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BETA PHOTO: Machine Gun

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Description 

A cool little area high in Icicle, The Machine Gun holds five distinct problems, and room for traverses, eliminates, and play. It's a fun warm up spot, or a great place to spend a relaxing couple of hours. Often secluded.

Getting There 

Tough to find. The best thing is to have someone riding shotgun, looking out the right window for the boulder around 8.7 miles from the 76 station corner. The pullouts are small here.
The boulder is set back perhaps a hundred feet from the road. Roughly 0.2 miles past the turn for Eightmile road (not 8 mile campground).
If you find the Sword area, drive back a very short distance towards town (~0.1 miles), and you'll see the boulder on the left.

The Classics

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Maniacal Moray V2 PG13  WA : Leavenworth : ... : The Machine Gun

Sit start, match hands at the left end of the lower crack (the eel's 'mouth'). Squeeze your heels and bump to the upper crack, then follow it right until you can throw for a smooth grey oval patch of rock at the lip (may want to first check it out from above to locate it). Grab the big horn and top out over the small boulder its attached to....[more]   Browse More Classics in WA