At the arete, if you're tall enough, you can maneuver your feet and reach up to a one joint finger hold. Then traverse left back to the 3rd bolt along the slightly rising thin horizontal crack. If you're too short, the move at the arete must be pretty hard. In any case, a fall from here would be ugly, since the bolt is about 10' to the left.

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At the arete, if you're tall enough, you can maneuver your feet and reach up to a one joint finger hold. Then traverse left back to the 3rd bolt along the slightly rising thin horizontal crack. If you're too short, the move at the arete must be pretty hard. In any case, a fall from here would be ugly, since the bolt is about 10' to the left.

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Kuba navigating through some tricky climbing on pitch 3, Aug. 2014.

East Ridge. Kuba Musial on the exposed pitch 5.

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Ivan Rezucha

Aug 22, 2004

“At the arete, if you're tall enough, you can maneuver your feet and reach up to a one joint finger hold. Then traverse left back to the 3rd bolt along the slightly rising thin horizontal crack. If you're too short, the move at the arete must be pretty hard. In any case, a fall from here would be ugly, since the bolt is about 10' to the left.”

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