This is the trick for avoiding rope drag on P4. As you turn the corner from one dihedral to the next, there is a #3- below the #3 is this rope-grabbing notch. This is a #7 or #8 aluminum offset that I tugged on to set *upwards*, then clipped to the #3.

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This is the trick for avoiding rope drag on P4. As you turn the corner from one dihedral to the next, there is a #3- below the #3 is this rope-grabbing notch. This is a #7 or #8 aluminum offset that I tugged on to set *upwards*, then clipped to the #3.

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Climbers on the upper two pitches of the Yellow Spur. The climber on the lower right is on the crux bolt ladder. Photo taken from the top of Handcracker on 6/15/03.

Unnamed climber finishing the traverse at the top of Pitch 1.

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“This is the trick for avoiding rope drag on P4. As you turn the corner from one dihedral to the next, there is a #3- below the #3 is this rope-grabbing notch. This is a #7 or #8 aluminum offset that I tugged on to set *upwards*, then clipped to the #3.”

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