White Lines  5.12c/d

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Type:  Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 80 feet Consensus:  5.12c [details] FA:  Clay Watson, Mike Perkins, Brian Smoot New Route:  Yes Season:  Spring, Summer and Fall Submitted By:  tenesmus on Sep 17, 2011 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (3) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

The first bit
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Description 

Originally covered in white granitic rime, this one stayed in my head for a long, long time. Tyler Phillips helped me aid the first half and the line out right, which makes for excellent steep aid climbing. We broke a lot of holds, took some huge whippers, blew out some blocks and destroyed a few pitons. In the end, adding a few bolts seemed prudent.

Many partners helped me clean this with varying degrees of enthusiasm for getting dust in their eyes, nose and lungs. However, Mike Perkins had the best beta which he can't remember.

This is a fun line with very clean falls and bomber gear. Super huge jugs for most of it with two cruxes at the end that feel v3 or 4-ish?

Location 

This climbs the steep crack system through the roofs 50 feet to the right of Death of a Monarch.

Protection 

yellow tcu through #2 camalot with doubles in orange and .75 camalot, long runners and a few quickdraws for the piton and bolts.

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Its a really good idea to belay from the first bol...	Eases up here... photo courtesy of www.caseyhyer.c...	Getting through this roof is super fun! photo cour...
I'm 5'6", so its doable for short people photo cou...	Its nice to have your feet up high photo courtesy ...	The final crux is pretty dang fun! photo courtesy ...
The angle of the climbing	This gully is so broken and chossy its kind of har...