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Looking for the last gear before the crystal runout. It's runout by my standards, but not very hard. The hardest climbing is up the crack to reach the ceiling below Ken.
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The crystal-studded face on pitch 1.
Looking up the start of pitch 1 from the base of the route.
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Ivan Rezucha
Nov 7, 2004
“Looking for the last gear before the crystal runout. It's runout by my standards, but not very hard. The hardest climbing is up the crack to reach the ceiling below Ken. ”  

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Looking up the start of pitch 1 from the base of the route.
Hey, I think this is a variation of P2. The descriptions in the guidebook are a bit hard to figure out. So, it seems like that groove to the left is probably the correct line. This crack goes probably 5.8 PG-13. Watch the shirt on your right shoulder getting off Surrey Ledge, it can rip on those crystals.
The crystal-studded face on pitch 1.
Looking for the last gear before the crystal runout. It's runout by my standards, but not very hard. The hardest climbing is up the crack to reach the ceiling below Ken.

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Ken Heiser
Boulder, CO
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