Placing gear deep inside on the approach to the traverse.

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Placing gear deep inside on the approach to the traverse.

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There was a little surprise waiting for me in the beginning off-width.

The climber is at the traverse. Delicate face moves are made from the wide Bon Homme on the right to a narrow variation crack on the left.

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Ivan Rezucha

Sep 20, 2007

“Placing gear deep inside on the approach to the traverse.”

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There was a little surprise waiting for me in the beginning off-width.

Placing gear deep inside on the approach to the traverse.

The climber is at the traverse. Delicate face moves are made from the wide Bon Homme on the right to a narrow variation crack on the left.

After doing the high traverse. If you're planning on linking P1 and P2, you don't want to place gear for a while in the left crack.

Peering around the corner. Perhaps this is the correct traverse line? I traversed higher where it's steeper, but where there is a horizontal crack for gear and your hands.

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Fort Collins, CO

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