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Thin to Win

5.10b, Sport, TR, 80 ft (24 m),  Avg: 2.3 from 81 votes
FA: unknown
N Carolina > 3. Piedmont Region > Pilot Mountain > 14. Parking Lot

Description

From the slanting boulder pull the roof to a thin face. Continue to a ledge, the climb the wide crack to the top (5.7).

Location

10 feet to the left of a large crack (Vegomatic)

Protection

5 bolts to bolted Anchors before the ledge. There are also bolts leading to another set of anchors at the top of the cliff.

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At the midpoint anchors. Continue past the big ledge to a few more bolts before reaching the top.
[Hide Photo] At the midpoint anchors. Continue past the big ledge to a few more bolts before reaching the top.

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Bill Webster
Chapel Hill, NC
  5.10a/b
[Hide Comment] Now a four bolt sport route at 5.10a to the anchors about 40 ft up. You can also do the 5.11a left top rope variation up the smooth rock to the anchors. Feb 28, 2014
Huxley OoO
Desert, NM
  5.10b
[Hide Comment] You can top the climb out by continuing up past the ledge on super juggy, freshly bolted 5.7. Bring 12 draws + an anchor setup. Get ready for some thrutching at the start. Apr 19, 2014
Benandstuff
Winston-Salem, NC
 
[Hide Comment] The upper section could easily be considered its own climb, since it has its own anchors, own character, own grade, and can be accessed on foot by scrambling up a gully around the corner to the left and traversing over some briars to the base of the climb. Mar 20, 2017
Jason Bryant
Elkin, NC
  5.10b
[Hide Comment] At this point, I think most consider this route just the 40' to the large ledge. Everybody is Watching is the route above the ledge. I have noted basically three ways of doing the crux over the bulge at the 4th bolt; right, center and left. Each has it's own characteristics and require different climbing skills. Right being the easiest. The center being the hardest. The left being a great way of working footwork and balancing. Sep 28, 2021