Tommy Gun  5.11

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Type:  Trad, 2 pitches, 100 feet Consensus:  5.11a/b [details] FA:  Tim Addison, Chip Ruckgaber, & Matt Slater, 1981 Submitted By:  Steve Annecone on Dec 14, 2002 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (2) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

This is a steep, wild, and pretty good 2-pitch route located uphill of Velvet Elvis, just left of the clean left-facing corner (the Raven). The first pitch starts up and right along a flake, which involves somewhat spicy climbing but on easier terrain. The flake progresses into a shallow right-facing corner, where you stem and face climb up interesting 5.10 or easy 5.11 climbing, with smaller nuts and/or creative gear in the corner. The corner fades and the line face climbs up and right, past a bulge, to the large horizontal ledge. Traverse left to the overhanging crack and belay.

The second pitch is relatively brief, but it goes out a splitter hand crack set in an exposed, overhanging, left-facing dihedral! Fire up the sustained and exposed crack, and belay on top. Nice finish to a good climb. Third class down to the rappel anchors above the Raven and rap 60' to the ground.

Protection 

Standard rack including small nuts/RPs, Aliens, and extra thin hand and hand-sized pieces for the roof.

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Jason Haas follows the first pitch of 'Tommy Gun (...