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All Locations > Utah > Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Big Cottonwood… > Mineral Fork > Surprise Buttress > Out of the Blue (5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c)
Pitch 2-Brian Smoot during FA up the great hand crack
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Looking down the gorgeous corner, mid-way up pitch 2.
Pitch 1- "Jungle Pitch" Go get em!
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Chad Ambrose
Aug 11, 2019
“Pitch 2-Brian Smoot during FA up the great hand crack”  

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On the right side of the buttress look for the clean slab and directly in the middle of that slab is the alcove and hand crack (pitch 2). To the left of the top there is a flying fin, that is pitch 4. Approximate belay locations of FA.
Looking up pitch 5 and chockstone. Watch loose rock. Steep. Crux.
Looking down pitch 5 see Brian belaying on looker's right
Pitch 5- cross over to the narrowest gap and then onto this face which continues up out of the picture.
Topo
The bushy ledge at the bottom of the descent gully. There is a large cairn looker's right to direct climbers toward the approach gully.
Top! Not a bad view of the great peaks-
Descent gully to the right
Hand-sized splitter with fin above and to the left.
Looking at small second roof in hand crack
Looking down the gorgeous corner, mid-way up pitch 2.
Pitch 2-Brian Smoot during FA up the great hand crack