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Commitment

Name: Commitment
Rating: 3.5

5.9 YDS 5c French 17 Ewbanks VI UIAA 17 ZA HVS 5a British

Routes in First Tier

L › R R › L A › Z

	Antique T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b R
	Caverns, The T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Commitment T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Fire Fly S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Hanging Teeth T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Jughead T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c R
	Munginella T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Surprise, The T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Try Again Ledge T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Werner's Ant Trees T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Work Around the Skirt S 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b

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Type:	Trad, 320 ft (97 m), 3 pitches
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Description

This climb is in the next book right of "Munginella".

P1: Start by climbing a great splitter handcrack (thin at the bottom, may be cruxy) up for a ways to an obvious short face traverse right on nice positive flakes which gets you to a bolted anchor. This is a very nice pitch.

P2: A short section of delicate face climbing (easy, but not well protected) leads up to a corner at the right edge of a roof. Get some gear in the roof and continue up the moderate but sustained layback corner up to the bigger roof above. Gear belay anywhere you want, ideally right underneath the massive roof.

P3: Climb up to the roof and traverse out right to get established in the corner above it (crux). Continue up the nice corner, which presents another 5.9 crux layback/undercling right as you top out. It is possible to avoid this part by topping out to the left as the corner gets blocky, but this second crux is great fun, protects well, and is no harder than the previous 5.9 roof pull. Get after it and do the proud finish!

The top is full of loose rocks and debris; take special care not to knock any of it down on anyone below. Continue up to climbs on the upper tier, or descend as for Munginella.