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All Locations > Colorado > Estes Park Valley > Lumpy Ridge > Citadel > Heart Of Norway (5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b)
Chuck laybacking the "splinter" P2 dihedral crack. Photo by Luke Clarke, hanging from the bolts at the end of the climb. I led on doubles, lowered, then TR'd Luke and Chuck each on a single strand.
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You can protect the roof well, but choose carefully. This is no place to hang around fiddling with all those fancy cams.
Chuck reaching for the top. In the area of the belay bolts, the rock becomes more crumbly, the crack ends, and the dihedral morphs into a huge concave roof. Going up is out of the question, even on aid (without bolting). Going right to finish on the mixed route to the right might be possible.<br> Photo by Luke Clarke.
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Ivan Rezucha
Aug 6, 2006
“Chuck laybacking the "splinter" P2 dihedral crack. Photo by Luke Clarke, hanging from the bolts at the end of the climb. I led on doubles, lowered, then TR'd Luke and Chuck each on a single strand.”  

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