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All Locations > Arizona > Northern Arizona > Sedona Area > Sedona > Cathedral Rock… > S Mesa > S Mesa > Vortex in a Can (5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b)
map. best approach option drawn on with approximate distances from parking area.
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Heather Hayes on a tricky section of pitch 1.
Not to be alarmist, but I noted the spiderwebbing series of hairline fractures that completely surround the closely spaced belay bolts- your sole security for starting the third pitch.
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Kevin Kent
Dec 7, 2015
“map. best approach option drawn on with approximate distances from parking area. ”  

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map. best approach option drawn on with approximate distances from parking area.
Not to be alarmist, but I noted the spiderwebbing series of hairline fractures that completely surround the closely spaced belay bolts- your sole security for starting the third pitch.
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The start of pitch 2 (I thought the mantle onto the top of the Fort Apache Limestone was a tad harder than 5.8!).
Heather Hayes on a tricky section of pitch 1.
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