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Pitch 5 lay back.
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3rd class gully to get to start of S Crack.
Third Pitch. The only two placements I could find in the right crack were a green alien and a 0.75 camalot, and they were pretty shallow and uninspiring
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James Tolins
Jun 28, 2016
“Pitch 5 lay back.”  

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Some fun exposed climbing on Pitch 6 (or Pitch 7 by some route descriptions).
Unfortunately, the corner is a bit unprotected for a stretch (which is why Dow traversed off right trying to find more protectable terrain). But I think the S Crack route does indeed continue up the corner in the photo, but is unprotected for about 20 feet.
This is where the previous day we had exited off left to get to the South Face route, but to stay on the S Crack route, continue upwards. As you can see from where the rope goes in the photo, we ended up traversing across slab to a crack system off right. In my opinion, this crack system on the right was off route. I think the S Crack route continues up the corner on the left in the photo, but is unprotected for about 20 feet.
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A splitter crack that starts Pitch 4 (or Pitch 5 by some route descriptions). This is the only really splitter section of this route as the route is mostly climbing wide and wild climbing up flares and chimneys and grooves.
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3rd class gully to get to start of S Crack.
Pitch 5 lay back.