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Flatus

5.10a, Trad, 180 ft (55 m), 2 pitches,  Avg: 2.1 from 11 votes
FA: Chuck Pratt Tom Bauman
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Description

Flatus is a fun outing on Reed's. Start up a right trending finger rail that takes good gear between cliffside succulents. This terminates at an E-Z Squeeze chimney, before you pop back left on a short handcrack to a ledge. 5.8.

2nd pitch goes straight up the corner with fun stemming, jamming, smearing, scumming and chimneying. Sweet! Corner changes directions on fists at the top and then you enter another squeeze which deposits you on another big ledge.

The climb continues up for several more wide pitches...

Rappel the route (first two) with a single 60m off tat anchors.

Flatus!
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Location

Halfway between Lunatic and Stone Groove.

Protection

Gear to 4"

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Rob Dillon
Tamarisk Clearing
[Hide Comment] The words missing between the lines in this description are "old" and "school"! Good old-fashioned rock climbing, rarely crowded, and a pretty good way to get your Valley on. Apr 30, 2012
Alexey Zelditch
San Jose
[Hide Comment] good combination of Flatus +Rorp
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Brice Pollock
Mammoth Lakes, CA
 
[Hide Comment] I'd want 1-2 #5s and 1 #4 for the 5.9 offwidth shown in the most recent Yosemite book. The finger crack didn't feel great with loose flakes so we backed off that and felt stiffer than 5.9. Apr 15, 2019