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Air Guitar 

5.10a

   

FA: M. Dufford and D. Leonardi 85'
Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.9+ [details]
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Submitted By: Bryson Slothower on Mar 3, 2006


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Description 

One of the Coulee's best hand cracks.

Jam thin hands to hands to fists with a spot o' offwidth below the anchor.

Bolted anchor

this was the scene of a tragic fatal accident a few years ago


Location 

Between Pony Keg and Crossing the Threshold


Protection 

tcu's and cams to 4"



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By Brian Hench
From: Anaheim, CA
Mar 16, 2009

The victim of the accident was Goran Kropp in 2002. You want to have at least one 3 inch and one 4 inch cam for this route.

By Ryan Huetter
From: Toyota Tacoma
Mar 23, 2009

No need for #4 camalot. With 2 #3 camalots you can leave one low and bump the other up with you for the short wide bit at the top. Really stellar climbing!

By Scott Coldiron
From: Louisville, CO
May 22, 2009
rating: 5.10a

My respects to Goran, he was an amazing athlete. With that said, don't be freaked out by the past accident. This is a fun, safe lead. Ditto the last post. I don't think the #4 is needed, and didn't need to bump up the second #3.

By mcarizona
From: Flag
Nov 17, 2009

Kropp was indeed the man for getting it done. I still have the article somewhere and there is a picture of a broken biner. Some shockload or crossload went down that day.
Steve

By Brandontru
From: Nevada
Mar 4, 2010
rating: 5.10-

The first time I went to the coulee someone had taken a fall on this climb. Spooky stuff.


None the less it is one of the coolest cracks in area.