Slugging it out on the perfect rock of the final pitch.

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Slugging it out on the perfect rock of the final pitch.

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Anchor on top of pitch 4 on Cloud Tower. The bright blue anchor is mine, the discolored one was up there when go there with a quicklink attached to it

Monica leading the 10a splitter pitch of Cloud Tower

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Jared Wicks

Nov 13, 2013

“Slugging it out on the perfect rock of the final pitch. ”

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Pitch 1

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Trying not to be intimidated by the supposedly scary 6th pitch.

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Jeremiah working the crux pitch on Cloud Tower.

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Pitch 5

This pitch was amazing

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sunny final pitch

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Anchor on top of pitch 4 on Cloud Tower. The bright blue anchor is mine, the discolored one was up there when go there with a quicklink attached to it

Slugging it out on the perfect rock of the final pitch.

Monica leading the 10a splitter pitch of Cloud Tower

Andrew Gomoll gets into the business of the crux pitch.

Pitch 1

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Oskar using all his C3s on the crux pitch.

Greg getting into it on the crux pitch.<br>
Apologies for the sh!t-quality photo.

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Last pitch.

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Beginning the crux pitch!!

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