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Crescendo

5.12c, Sport, 60 ft (18 m),  Avg: 3.6 from 16 votes
FA: Jon Richard
Missouri > EM: Robinson Bluff > 2: North, Climb… > E: Picasso Wall

Description

Beta courtesy of Matt D.  
Up to just below the 4th bolt it's fairly straight forward, you can skip a couple holds and there's some fairly sharp pockets along the way. This section goes at about 11b.  At bolt 4 the crux kicks in as you're holding a poor left hand and trying to continue bumping the right hand up on side pulls. After bolt 5 look for a left hand side pull as you follow a crimp line with the right hand.  Nice left hand jug at the anchors.  Thanks Matt!

Location

The second route once the wall gets more vertical and the holds get more sparse.

Protection

5 bolts + anchors

Comments [Hide ALL Comments]

Josh Quigley
St. Louis, Mo
  5.12b
[Hide Comment] Video of Crescendo. Climber is 5'5" for reference. This is one of my favorite lines at Robinson.
youtu.be/jZI6_U2RNSY May 16, 2020
Rich S

  5.12c
[Hide Comment] Well done guys. These videos are much better than the go pro stuff. May 16, 2020
Jon Richard
St. Louis, Missouri
5.12c/d
[Hide Comment] A video of the final CRUX moves on the FA.....
LINK: youtu.be/e_XgNhQCMwg May 27, 2020
Elizabeth Heugel
St. Louis
5.12c
[Hide Comment] Such a good climb that (for me) takes a while to figure out at the top! Figured I'd add a third beta option video since we're all doing it a little differently lol- youtube.com/watch?v=clb_JUM… Apr 10, 2021
Taylor Gemperline
Reno, NV
  5.12c
[Hide Comment] My turn. With the smaller Ape index I could never get to that left hand vertical rail/sidepull and opted for the compression crimps up the right side. Definitely drastically different from everyone else here.
youtube.com/watch?v=mLlUVvE… Nov 28, 2021