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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

5.10c, Trad, 100 ft (30 m), 2 pitches,  Avg: 1 from 3 votes
FA: Paul Rosenau and Rob Mulligan, September 1985
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Description

This is a curving finger crack 50 feet to the right (west) of Exorcist. The rock quality is not the best but the climbing is very nice and the gear is great.

Start up a loose lieback / finger crack that becomes a powerful finger crack traverse straight right where it meets the wide crack of What, 5.8.

Location

Follow the upper finger crack part of IT, 5.9 as a second pitch. Traverse left (east) to Exorcist's rappel anchors, one rope rap just makes it.

Protection

Standard crack gear, bring extra small cams from 0.25" to 0.5" and a 4" cam for What. 1"-3" cams for the belay.

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[Hide Comment] FA name is Paul Rosenau, not Roseman. Sep 29, 2014
[Hide Comment] Thanks Rob, it's been corrected. Sep 29, 2014