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Ivan Rezucha > Yosemite
Serenity Crack at the Royal Arches area. 2 pitches of 10a lead to the tree and then a short 10d thin fingers crux leads up and right to a ledge. Sons of Yesterday, another 7 pitches or so of 9 and some 10 continues up from there.
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Brother Paul leading P1 on the famous pin scar pockets that in great part led to the clean climb revolution of the early 70s. You might be able to get a mediocre mid-sized TriCam in a pocket, but otherwise there's no gear for a long way off the ground. The first bolt is another 10' above Paul. The climbing is 5.9 or so.
Marginal Line 5.9 on the Apron in 1980. That was the rather low pinnacle of my slab climbing career. I could never do runouts like this these days.
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Ivan Rezucha
Mar 9, 2006
“Serenity Crack at the Royal Arches area. 2 pitches of 10a lead to the tree and then a short 10d thin fingers crux leads up and right to a ledge. Sons of Yesterday, another 7 pitches or so of 9 and some 10 continues up from there.”  

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Serenity Crack 10d and Sons of Yesterday 10a. Serenity Crack climbs in 3 pitches from the bottom center of the photo to the first tree and then angles right to a ledge. Sons of Yesterday continues for about 7 pitches following cracks to the right of the huge left facing corner.
I have to post one photo of El Cap. The Nose, which I climbed in 75 with Dick Saum. The upper part of the Nose climbs the huge dihedral just left of the sun/shadow line. The dihedral left of that is upper Muir Wall. The ledges catching a little sun just above the tree tops to the right of center are Dolt Tower and El Cap Tower, two good ledges on the lower Nose.
Middle Cathedral with the Cathedral Spires to the left. The too populat Central Pillar of Frenzy, 5.9 or so, follows right facing flakes and cracks at the center of the photo for 5 or more pitches.
Paul on the last pitch that we climbed. This was one of the cruxes for us. The pitch continues up and right from the end of the traverse via a crack that was too wide for the gear we (meaning Paul) had.
P2 or P3 (?) of Sons of Yesterday. Like all the pitches, 5.9 or so.
P1 of Sons of Yesterday. 5.9 or so.
Paul is making the crux move switching cracks on the 10a P2 of Serenity Crack.
P2 of Serenity Crack 10a. The crux is switching to the right crack.
Brother Paul leading P1 on the famous pin scar pockets that in great part led to the clean climb revolution of the early 70s. You might be able to get a mediocre mid-sized TriCam in a pocket, but otherwise there's no gear for a long way off the ground. The first bolt is another 10' above Paul. The climbing is 5.9 or so.
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