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Bushwhack Crack

5.8+, Trad, 45 ft (14 m),  Avg: 3.5 from 2 votes
FA: Tracy Crabtree, Jeff Ashley in 1989
Kentucky > Red River Gorge > Northern Gorge > Clearcut Wall
Warning Access Issue: New route development is prohibited in the Daniel Boone National Forest. DetailsDrop down

Description

Stem and work the crack, protecting with a full range of gear mostly fingers to fists, but also a short off-width section near the top.  Save a few cams BD 0.1-0.4 to build an anchor in the crack for Vascular Massacre above the belay ledge, and bring up your second.

Location

Hike around the wall right of Baptist Preacher to a pair of cracks under a large roof.  This is the left of the two cracks.

Protection

Rap from webbing on a large tree at far corner of climber's-left side of ledge, roughly 35' from route.

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Bushwhack Crack at Clearcut Wall, RRG, KY
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