American Wet Dream
5.10b YDS 6a+ French 19 Ewbanks VII- UIAA 19 ZA E2 5b British R
| Type: | Trad, 500 ft (152 m), 5 pitches |
| GPS: | 37.84392, -119.45002 |
| FA: | Vern Clevenger, Rick Accomazzo, Tom McCabe, DarylTeske 8/1974 |
| Page Views: | 5,324 total · 25/month |
| Shared By: | Robert Mooring on Sep 28, 2008 · Updates |
| Admins: | Mike Morley, Adam Stackhouse, Salamanizer Ski, Justin Johnsen, Vicki Schwantes |
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Description
An underrated route with good climbing on every pitch that you’ll likely have to yourself. Every belay is at a ledge, several HUGE. The route staircases left. Technical crux is a thin Lieback on pitch 2 or a crack switch to start the 3rd pitch depending on your finger size. Fourth pitch has about 15 feet of 10a protected by a bolt at the bottom, and small cams above, negating the original R rating. Tops out with some standard 5.7R slab with a couple cam placements on either variation(directly up or right across small ledges and then up).



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