Descent gully rap anchor. Consists of a star drive and a worse-than-it looks drilled angle. These need updating badly.

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Descent gully rap anchor. Consists of a star drive and a worse-than-it looks drilled angle. These need updating badly.

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Lee Jensen and Perin Blanchard at the second rap station on the <em>Touchstone</em> descent.<br>
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Photo by Marc Jensen.

Lunch on Pitch 5

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Garrett R.

Nov 26, 2017

“Descent gully rap anchor. Consists of a star drive and a worse-than-it looks drilled angle. These need updating badly.”

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Taken 05/21/17

Was I off route? This was the upper section of our 5th pitch, which felt harder than freeing the 3rd pitch. This pitch (our 5th) started off a very decent ledge about 15ft off to the left side of the crack for P4. I placed nothing wider than a #2 on P5, mostly .2 to .4s in the crux here

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Photo by Marc Jensen.

Descent gully rap anchor. Consists of a star drive and a worse-than-it looks drilled angle. These need updating badly.

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