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Approach to Valinor. Keep in the gully heading towards the tower until you are approximately underneath Hobbit Book.
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Pitch 3 is fantastic
As the comment pointed out, I mistook the bolt (on the face on the left, not shown) as the anchor bolt for P2. Luckily I had a wild country .1 friend that fit here and allowed me to build an anchor. So if you get to this point, keep going a bit further.
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Christine Spang
Sep 22, 2019
“Approach to Valinor. Keep in the gully heading towards the tower until you are approximately underneath Hobbit Book.”  

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Valinor Overlay
Nearing the top of pitch three of Valinor. The other climber is on the R pitch of Hobbit Book. Epic Location! Use caution on the last pitch of any route on Marioulumne Dome, due to the poorer rock quality. Long live Tuolumne, long live Tolkien :)
Valinor Overlay, route is red dotted line
Marioulumne + Drug Dome Base 1/ Valinor Topo
Natalie stepping left into the shallow crack after surmounting the small roof on pitch 3.
Start of P4 with an interesting move (crimpy) off the anchors to gain the crack
Looking up at the P3 thin crack (I thought this was the technical crux on-route)
Long shot of some unknown friendly climbers on Valinor 9/13/24 captured from Elanor.
Unknown climbers on Valinor 9/13/24 captured from Elanor.
Valinor topo
Starting up P1
Pitch 3 is fantastic

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Christine Spang
Oakland, CA

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