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10W - The Blind Fate Area Climbing

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	Blind Faith WI3
	Blind Fate WI4
	Blue Ice Bulge WI4-
	Cass’ Gully T WI2 Easy Snow
	Generation Gap WI4
	Hidden Gully WI3-4
	Illogical Hydrology WI4
	Norton-Gibney T WI4 M4

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Elevation:	2,605 ft
GPS:	44.55455, -72.79991 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Description

A large amphitheatre on Mt Mansfield (west side of the road), filled with numerous lines.
Avalanches have been reported in the approach gullies.
Most of the routes on the centre left can be descended by heading down the treed buttress followed by a single rope rap.

Blue Ice Bulge, II, WI3-4
Pick and Choss, M4
Illogical Hydrology, II, WI4
Norton-Gibney, II, WI4
California Dreaming, II, WI4
Blind Fate, III, WI4
Blind Faith, II, WI3
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Cass's Gully, WI1-2
Hidden Gully, II, WI3/4-

Getting There

1.45 miles from Jeffersonville (1.55 miles from Stowe), head west (right) between the high point and the sharp bend in the road, along the gullies.

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Classic Climbing Routes at 10W - The Blind Fate Area

Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.

WI4 14 ● Blind Fate Ice 2 pitches
WI3-4 30 ● Hidden Gully Ice 3 pitches
WI4- 9 ● Blue Ice Bulge Ice
WI4 M4 3 ● Norton-Gibney Trad, Mixed, Ice 2 pitches