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Pull Hard

5.13a, Sport, 85 ft (26 m),  Avg: 3.5 from 2 votes
FA: Rhys Beaudry, September 12, 2020
International > N America > Canada > Alberta > Nordegg [David… > Little Russia > Overhang

Description

This line splits slightly right from the mid-height knee-bar on the original line "Pull Harder"

3 sections to the climb:

1. Approach: 3 m, 2 bolts (~5.10), ~6 moves up an easy flake onto a no hands ledge. If you want to climb 5.13, take off your shirt here.
2. "Pull Harder" crux 1, 10 m, 6 bolts (5.13a), ~22 moves to the knee bar rest and branch point. If you haven't taken your shirt off yet, this is going to be strenuous but you might be able to do it!
3. Pull Hard crux 2, 10 m, 3 bolts (~5.12), Stand up out of your knee bar to clip the bolt up and just a touch to the right. Pull a powerful boulder along the weakness to get out of the harsh overhang to easier, closer to vertical rock. After you clip your next bolt, the climb is yours to botch!

Counter-weighted rap to recover your draws and get your shirt off the ground. Good job.

To reduce rope drag/protect your rope, stick clip the second bolt and long draw bolts 6, 8 (knee bar bolt), 9, 10.

Location

As you walk up to the overhang, this is the second line from the right- shared start with "Start of the Line"/"Pull Harder", splits off of Pull harder at bolt 8 (cannot be seen from ground). Climbtech perma on bolt 4 and a handful of "crag draws"

Protection

11 bolts, 2 bolt anchor

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Rhys Beaudry
Calgary, AB
  5.13a
[Hide Comment] One of the holds in the top boulder may snap eventually; if it does, the grade will not change.

Not as sustained as the original line, but still violently exciting climbing! Sep 13, 2020