Mismatched shoes and bloody toes--what happens when you do hundreds of feet of handcracks in an Anasazi velcro.

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Mismatched shoes and bloody toes--what happens when you do hundreds of feet of handcracks in an Anasazi velcro.

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Deep in the Dagger.

Pat following the first 11a pitch off Crossover Ledge; party below is coming up Yellow Wall.

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Charles Vernon

Aug 31, 2009

“Mismatched shoes and bloody toes--what happens when you do hundreds of feet of handcracks in an Anasazi velcro.”

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mind & body in Colorado, heart still in Tucson....