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Vision Quest

5.11a, Sport, 100 ft (30 m),  Avg: 3.2 from 9 votes
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Montana > Southwest Region > Indian Creek > Vision Quest Wall

Description

One of the longest routes in the area, this will use all but a couple meters of your 60m rope and will utilize every technique you've got: stemming, crackwork, slab, bouldery pulls, you name it! Start with a short boulder problem to make the first clip and gain a big ledge. Get your slab game on here and start a left-ward trending traverse up across a blank looking (from below) face aiming for a small roof. Cross overtop this with a committing move (good exposure!) and into a groove with a tree. From here continue for another few clips up a cool shallow dihedral using edges and good fingerlocks in the crystal-lined crack.

Gets .10d/.11a in the guidebook but really no defined crux on this one, just some good exposure and a couple short tricky sequences up high.

Location

On the vision quest wall, locate the obvious dihedral with a crack on the left side. This is bolt line to the right, arching leftward across the blank looking face. The climb to the right, which transfers across an awesome looking little alcove/undercling, is Peyote (.11b/c)

Protection

14 bolts to chain anchors with hooks just below the crag summit

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Mike Schacter. 5/21/22
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Dan Bachen
Helena, MT
 
[Hide Comment] 10/7/22 Helena Climbers Coalition updated all protection bolts to glueins, replaced the anchor, and added mussy hooks. Thanks to the ASCA for the hardware! Oct 8, 2022