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Chuck just about done struggling with the finish to P3. As with P2, the crux is not the overhanging layback, but getting established on the lower angle rock above. The piece above Chuck is a good green Alien. A good idea to keep the rope from running over the top cams if the second should fall. Shortest approach in Boulder! That's our car below. Just like the old days when you could park at the base of the Bastille.
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Chuck going back up for another try at the 10+ P2 layback. The crux is transitioning from the layback to a mediocre jam at Chuck's high piece and then pulling over to stand on a good foothold on the left. It's not too bad on TR, but hard to stop and place gear. The piece above Chuck's right knee is a fixed hybrid Alien, and the piece above that is a big fixed stopper (fixed as ot 6/27/04).
Climber laybacking the short 10+ third pitch.
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Ivan Rezucha
Jun 27, 2004
“Chuck just about done struggling with the finish to P3. As with P2, the crux is not the overhanging layback, but getting established on the lower angle rock above. The piece above Chuck is a good green Alien. A good idea to keep the rope from running over the top cams if the second should fall. Shortest approach in Boulder! That's our car below. Just like the old days when you could park at the base of the Bastille.”  

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The main thing I remember about our ascent in 1975 was the 4th pitch which was much harder than it was supposed to be. EBs, painters pants, 60/40. Not sure how it was protected in those days with no cams. There may have been some more pins.
The mantle may have been 10+ when I first climbed this in 1975 when this photo was taken. Since then a key hold has broken and the foot holds have become way more polished.
Athlete's Feat - Still hard 40 years after the FFA. Englishman's Home 11c is the series of shallow, right-facing corners right of Athletee's Feat. Country Club Crack 11c is the obvious, left-angling series of cracks.
Athlete's Feat and Country Club Crack.
Looking down from the top.
Chuck going back up for another try at the 10+ P2 layback. The crux is transitioning from the layback to a mediocre jam at Chuck's high piece and then pulling over to stand on a good foothold on the left. It's not too bad on TR, but hard to stop and place gear. The piece above Chuck's right knee is a fixed hybrid Alien, and the piece above that is a big fixed stopper (fixed as ot 6/27/04).
Chuck just about done struggling with the finish to P3. As with P2, the crux is not the overhanging layback, but getting established on the lower angle rock above. The piece above Chuck is a good green Alien. A good idea to keep the rope from running over the top cams if the second should fall. Shortest approach in Boulder! That's our car below. Just like the old days when you could park at the base of the Bastille.
Climber laybacking the short 10+ third pitch.
Rich Farnham attempting to lead P2. Photo by Clint Dillard.
The 11+ mantle. You can see the 2nd bolt a bit right and a bit above the center of the photo. The lighter area right of the bolt is the "bucket" pinch that Steve Levin mentions in his comments.
Kate mantling the crux on the first pitch of Athlete's Feat
It is never too late to climb a classic. Ivan Rezucha finishes 'Athlete's Feat (5.11)' on Castle Rock on an 'evening' ascent. Photo by Tony Bubb, 2005.
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