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Five Easy Steps

Name: Five Easy Steps
Rating: 1.8

5.5 YDS 4b French 13 Ewbanks IV+ UIAA 11 ZA MS 4a British

Routes in Southern Comfort Wall

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	Best Bitters T 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Black Velvet T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	DWI T 5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b
	Five Easy Steps T 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
	Have a Drink On Me T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	Irish Creme T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b PG13
	Lite Beer From Miller T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Lowenbrau Light T 5.7+ 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	Margaritaville T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Milk Stout T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Miller High Life T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	One Shot T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Wild Turkey T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Zombie T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c PG13

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Type:	Trad, 160 ft (48 m), 2 pitches
GPS:	32.3668, -106.5878
FA:	unknown
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Shared By:	Marta Reece on Jun 21, 2012
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Description

Five Easy Steps is the easiest route to the bolts used for rappel from several of the middle-of-the-wall climbs. Along with the ramp below the bolts it can provide access for top roping these routes. The two pitches described below can almost certainly be easily combined, but I have always climbed them separately. I use Five Easy Steps to introduce beginning climbers to trad. This arrangement allows me to watch my second on the traverse.

Pitch 1: Climb up a broken, right-facing corner. From its top, take a sloping traverse to the left aiming just below a small tree (currently marked by a bundle of slings) and to a comfortable ledge with a bush on the left end of it some ten feet beyond the tree. Build a gear anchor at the ledge.

Pitch 2: From the left end of the ledge go up another right-facing corner, staying left of the sotol. Continue up and little to the left over broken ground and few face moves to a wide ledge with chains above it.

Location

Going past Best Bitters, you encounter an obvious left facing corner. Continue up for another 100 feet or so to a left-slanting ramp with two clumps of trees on it. This is the start of the route.

Rappel from chains using two ropes.