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High up on the highly recomended, beutiful handcrack variation to pitch one. This starts just to the right of the chimney of the original start. This is an excellent crack and is much more consistent with the quality and diffuculty of the rest of the climb than the original 1st pitch.
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The chimney of Pitch 1. The parallel hand cracks that start out pitch 2 are visible in the center (left to right) at the top of the picture, just above the chimney.
The beautiful cracks on pitch 2.
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Ken Heiser
Feb 6, 2005
“High up on the highly recomended, beutiful handcrack variation to pitch one. This starts just to the right of the chimney of the original start. This is an excellent crack and is much more consistent with the quality and diffuculty of the rest of the climb than the original 1st pitch.”  

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Gobbler's Grunt. The chimney start on the left and the classic handcrack to the right of the chimney.
Alternate start (easier) to Gobblers Grunt "Dash and Thrangle" and Gobbler's next 2 pitches shown
Belay 3rd pitch.
Unknown climbers on 3rd pitch.
Some unknown climbers on pitch 2.
Devin working through the sequential roof on the first pitch.
Starting up P1 of Gobbler's Grunt. Original 5.7 chimney start is on the left, 5.9 hand crack variation is on the right.
Phil P following the wonderfully exposed P2.
The start of pitch 3.
The start of pitch two. Beautiful finger/hand cracks!
The start of the first pitch handcrack variation.
Cindy at the comfortable second belay.

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Ken Heiser
Boulder, CO
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