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The Final Sound

5.13b/c, Sport, 65 ft (20 m),  Avg: 4 from 7 votes
FA: Jeff Pedersen
Utah > Wasatch Range > Southern Wasatch > American Fork C… > Billboard Trail > Billboard > Apetizer Wall
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Description

Shares the first two or three bolts of Apetizer (depending on if you clip the first low bolt), then busts hard right through the overhanging staircase-like roof. The holds and movement on this route are amazing: bouldery, tenuous, burly, yet simultaneously subtle and techy. There are a few great rests separating the numerous cruxes. It's exposed, and the stone is bomber. One of the many great 5.13's in American Fork that often goes overlooked.

Note: there's a variation that branches off at the 7th bolt that is a letter grade harder.

Location

Same start as Apetizer

Protection

10-12 bolts to two bolt anchor with fixed biners. There's a working bolt (around bolt 8), and the first low bolt is often skipped.

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Kipp Schorr
  5.13b/c
[Hide Comment] One of the best features in the canyon and lots of options throughout. Like Aaron said, this thing covers alot of styles. The classic B/C feels right on the money for this one. Nov 15, 2017
slcpunk
 
[Hide Comment] must do. At least as good at atmosphere and pretty similar difficulty. May 1, 2018
Z D
Salt Lake City
[Hide Comment] Was this called Ghost Dance or Limestone Cowboy by the FA? Oct 8, 2019
[Hide Comment] Ghost Dance Oct 8, 2019
Aaron Child
Pleasant Grove, UT
  5.13b/c
[Hide Comment] After spending the day with Jeff Pedersen at the Billboard yesterday, he informed me that I had the names of these routes mistaken; The Final Sound is the correct name of this line. Ghost Dance is the variant line that busts left at the top. Limestone Cowboy was merely a working name that Boone Speed gave the route. It was never intended to be the route name. Nov 16, 2019