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No Surrender, No Retreat

5.10a/b, Trad, TR, 35 ft (11 m),  Avg: 3 from 2 votes
FA: unknown
Maryland > Black Rock > Tower of Babylon

Description

Step on a block on the right side of the rock jutting out from the bottom of the Tower. Pull onto the jutting rock and use the crack in the roof above to stabilize your reach over the roof. A high right foot and a big pull let you reach a right facing flake. Use the flake to reach a horizontal slot. Move from slot to slot with occasionally long reaches to the top (likely at the bottom of the precarious stack of rocks forming the top of the Tower).

Location

Start on the hill side on the southerly face of the Tower, right and around the corner from Falling Toward Apotheosis.

Protection

Finger to hands cams and tricams (maybe a few nuts would suffice). Short slings and hand sized cams/tricams and/or BD #3-4 cams for anchors.