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Sheep Skin

5.10b, Sport, 35 ft (11 m),  Avg: 2.5 from 65 votes
FA: Adam Mitchell
Texas > Austin Area > Barton Creek Gr… > Gus Fruh > D. Rubber Wall

Description

Crux is protected by the fourth bolt, getting above the small cave.

Location

Just left of the very straight tree in the middle of this wall

Protection

5 bolts with sport anchors

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Jake Westfall
Austin, TX
  5.10b
[Hide Comment] I thought the crux on this was pretty tricky. The beta I eventually worked out was definitely not obvious. Even if you already know the beta or figure it out immediately, I'd still say that even just executing the move feels more like 10b at least. Everything else on the route is pretty straightforward though.

There's a fairly big (chest-sized) block just above the crux that *felt* stable enough, but definitely *looks* like it could eventually detach and fall off... which would suck. Feb 5, 2017
Jake Westfall
Austin, TX
  5.10b
[Hide Comment] A roughly keyboard-sized block broke off of the top of this route on 2017-03-07, luckily missing the five people below. The block was the lower left foothold used to get past the cave/roof crux near the top (not the same block that I mentioned in my previous comment). I don't think this really changes the difficulty of the route, as there is another left foothold just a few inches above the one that broke off, so even the beta is much the same as before. Mar 10, 2017
Russell C
Austin, TX
[Hide Comment] The chock stone that was wedged above the crux fell off this route on 10/8/2019. Haven’t tried it again to see if it is harder yet. Edit: Tried it. Not much harder. Higher right hand after the butt jam. Oct 12, 2019