Getting ready to make the crux moves

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Getting ready to make the crux moves

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Jordan Cannon fires the beautiful crux splitter pitch of Triassic!!!

Looking up at the crux roof on p2 of Triassic Sands, having linked p1 and p2.

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Mostafa Noori

Oct 9, 2013

“Getting ready to make the crux moves”

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