Type: Trad, Alpine, 160 ft (48 m), 2 pitches, Grade II
FA: Davito Hammack, Rico Meleski
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Shared By: Josh Smith on Mar 4, 2018
Admins: Jason Halladay, Mike Hoskins, Anna Brown
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Tihs is the obvious wide crack up the left side of the blank face of the lower part of the Castle. The climbing is fun and of a wide character. There is no rap station at the top of the crack, so either build one or continue up the ridge to the top of the Castle (best option).

This is a reasonable way to skip the 5.11 climbing of the direct line of Crudija Frio.

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Either descend all the way down the Castle/Tecolote gully and go north and up the obvious gully to the base of the face or descend the Castle/Tecolote gully half way and rap in from the shoulder.

Protection Suggest change

Standard rack, plus some extra large sizes. Two 3s and two 4s would be nice to have.

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Mark led (and considerably pruned) this sustained crack on Crujida de la Reina in a single 40 m pitch. From the top of the crack, it took one more short pitch of bushy scrambling to gain the Upper South Ridge, by which we finished (5 pitches total).
Mark led (and considerably pruned) this sustain…
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