Type: Trad, 150 ft (45 m)
FA: FA: Brian & Jonathan Smoot '78,FFA pitch 2: Lance Bateman & Ben Folsom '93, FFA full route: Brent Barghahn 2020
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Shared By: Brent Barghahn on Oct 24, 2020
Admins: Perin Blanchard, GRK, David Crane

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One huge pitch of nearly all finger locks! Right up there with Alpenbock Crack in difficulty, albeit a very different style. An awesome, singular line as a free route.

A cruxy tips section past the bolt gains hero mono locks with bad feet. The seam then turns into classic LCC ramping to a midway rest in the chimney pod. The old pin belay at the hanging stance here is long gone - a proper free ascent continues onward up the 5.12 second half (which feels much more strenuous on link). 

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The diagonaling crack just above and left of Stormy Resurection. Go way up Green A gully, just passed the chockstone scramble.

Protection Suggest change

A heavy finger sized rack including: Micro Stoppers, Micro Cams, Offset Cams, 4-6x 0.3s and 0.4s, 1x #2
70m rope required to lower
Pins are not needed for free protection

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