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IMPORTANT BETA - the route cuts right to the flake (hidden crack) after plugging gear in this little roof on pitch one. If you head straight up that column like I did you'll be in major sketchland with no gear before the bolt 20 feet up
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Get your slab on!
On the first roof of pitch 3. Eight feet to the left you can see the infamous mantle on Cymbals of the Sun.
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Ryan Arnold
May 20, 2020
“IMPORTANT BETA - the route cuts right to the flake (hidden crack) after plugging gear in this little roof on pitch one. If you head straight up that column like I did you'll be in major sketchland with no gear before the bolt 20 feet up”  

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Les, at 64 on his route following on the crux of pitch one 34 years later.
Original hand drawn topo of Butcher Knife from Les Ellison.
The hand crack/flake after the slab traverse
Get your slab on!
IMPORTANT BETA - the route cuts right to the flake (hidden crack) after plugging gear in this little roof on pitch one. If you head straight up that column like I did you'll be in major sketchland with no gear before the bolt 20 feet up
On the first roof of pitch 3. Eight feet to the left you can see the infamous mantle on Cymbals of the Sun.
Following the fist crack on pitch 2
Start of the classic pitch 1...don't fall here!
The leftward slab traverse on pitch 2
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