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Grinning Gibbons

5.10+ PG13, Trad, 70 ft (21 m),  Avg: 1 from 1 vote
FA: Bill Robins, Kirsten Davis, 1985
Utah > Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Great White Icicle Area
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Description

A cerebral climb with runouts, some sketchy gear, some good gear, and a roof.

Climb the face to the right of Small Block passing a single bolt (guidebook says 2). Throw some gear in at the roof and pull the roof.  If you've chosen wisely, you mantle into some thin and unprotectable crack.  If you've chosen poorly, you get good gear but then have to traverse into the unprotectable crack.  A few more tricky moves and then a good crack leads you to the chains.

Location

15' right of Small Block.  It starts in the trees (more or less).  Bushwhack out and then find the bolt.

Protection

1 bolt and a single rack to a #2.