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Descending on double ropes to the hanging belay
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Doug leading away from the hanging belay. The diagonal crack turns upward just out of view on the right.
Evelyn beginning the first rap
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Nate Meringer
Mar 26, 2011
“Descending on double ropes to the hanging belay ”  

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Hanging Gardens - Gardener's Wall
Nearing the first belay. Notice the entire route is visible from this vantage point.
Hanging gardens is the large rock face on left side of the photo, Tom's Thumb is on the right
my dad celebrating getting to the top on his first multipitch climb. battle wounds for proof.
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Doug starts off on Pitch 2.
The diagonal crack that starts pitch 2 abruptly angles upwards and widens for the last 60ft.
Looking up at the second pitch from the hanging belay. It’s a little bit further to the start of the diagonal crack then the picture suggests, maybe 8ft over the chains.
Good Exposure right off the deck... 2nd placement
I had a full set of hexes, nuts and 4 BD Camalots (.5,1,2,3). The crack on the second pitch is pretty gunked up with dirt and debris, so some of the passive pro placements seemed a bit sketchy at times. Bring a brush so you can clean out the cracks on the second pitch a bit.
Scrambling off the back directly behind the HG anchors. There is a small ledge (1-2 feet wide) that ramps down to the right of this photo. Then you scramble down the boulders. At one point you do have to stem to get down, but the drop is only about 8 feet