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(7) Burning Balls

5.11b, Sport, TR, 50 ft (15 m),  Avg: 3.3 from 20 votes
FA: Tim Anderson, Todd Damico 2001
Pennsylvania > Southwestern Hi… > Breakneck > Main Wall
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Description

Another thin start with a bad landing, stick clipping the first bolt here isn't a bad idea either. climb up the thin face to the bulge pull the bulge and find a balancy top section.

Location

#7 on topo

Protection

5 bolts, double ring anchors.

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Main Wall Middle II
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Josh top-roping.
[Hide Photo] Josh top-roping.
Nick at the half-way crux.
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Josh Top-roping
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Nick at the first bolt.
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Tim Anderson
Acme, PA
  5.11+
[Hide Comment] Easily located by the Glue-in bolts. Nov 6, 2009
Kristen Fiore
Burlington, VT
 
[Hide Comment] FWIW the bolts on this climb are incorrectly installed. They are Fixe glue ins which are intended to be countersunk by notching the hole. The equipper in this case neglected to countersink them which means they are protruding quite a bit and also a bit underglued as a result. You can compare them to the bolts on Gas on the Fire which are the same bolts but correctly installed.

They seem solid enough for now but if a formal rebolting effort is ever done here these should all be replaced to meet best practice. Nov 9, 2019
Caleb Mattson
Cincinnati, OH
[Hide Comment] Another fun route, and pretty tall for the area. This and Transfusion complement each other perfectly. I found this one to be pretty on you the whole way while Transfusion had a defined crux Jun 11, 2020