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Vicious

Name: Vicious
Rating: 3.2

5.11+ YDS 7a French 24 Ewbanks VIII UIAA 24 ZA E4 6a British

Routes in Dome Rock

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	Air Corner TR 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Anti-Jello Crack T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Arch Bitch-Up T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Arwen T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a R
	Between Nothingness and Eternity T 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c PG13
	Close To The Edge T,S 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a PG13
	Direct Anti-Jello Crack T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c PG13
	Fruit at The Bottom T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Good Samaritan, The T 5.11+ 7a 24 VIII 24 E4 6a PG13
	Handycraft TR 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Just Barely T,S 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c PG13
	Last Dihedral, The T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c PG13
	Last Homely House T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Left Crack T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	More Raisins T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c R
	Old Man Quiver S 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
	Red Mushrooms T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b PG13
	Sanitarium T,S,TR 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Saucer Full of Secrets T 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13
	Save the Wails S 5.12a/b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6a
	Tobin's Dihedral T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
	Tree Route T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Vicious T 5.11+ 7a 24 VIII 24 E4 6a
	Windjammer T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b R

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Type:	Trad, 30 ft (9 m)
GPS:	36.06681, -118.52882
FA:	unknown
Page Views:	2,637 total · 13/month
Shared By:	Ken Trout on Nov 10, 2008 · Updates
Admins:	Cory B, Matthew Fienup, Muscrat, Mike Morley, Adam Stackhouse, Salamanizer Ski, Justin Johnsen, Vicki Schwantes Page Updates (admin only)

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Description

An arching splitter of unusual excellence and a convenient test-piece to prevent slab-induced muscle atrophy. The Hickey-Moser-Vernon guide supplied the name and rating for this route. That out-of-print guide describes Vicious as one of several short top-ropes close to the parking spot. A route this good has surely been led many times.

The crux is the start, liebacking left of the thin crack. After a middle section of splitter hands, a 5.10 traverse to finish.

A shorter, 5.9+, steep hand crack, can be found just west and might be a good warm up.

Aiding up the start a bit, to get in a top-rope piece for working the crux, is easy. To make the second placement free, so close to the ground, is the real-deal trad thing.

Convenient (bolt) anchor recently added.

Location

Located in the Amphitheater

Start at the gate on the road to the top of Dome Rock. When the road switches left, traverse right across the open hillside to the rim of the small cliff. The east facing crack is visible from the top. The easiest way to the base of the route was juggy, but exposed, third classing 100 feet east of the route. Maybe three minutes from the car to the down-climb.