Type: Trad, 60 ft (18 m)
GPS: 36.3558, -105.73299
FA: unknown
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Shared By: George Perkins on Jan 10, 2021
Admins: Mike Howard, Jason Halladay, Mike Hoskins, Anna Brown

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Surely one of the best and hardest all trad pitches at the crag and among the hardest on Taos Gorge basalt.  Beautiful thin fingers/tips crack between Blind Faith and Lava Flows.  Tricky and sustained through a sequential crux, I felt small cams protected it adequately (though the books say "runout"/"tricky pro").  Rated 11+ in one book, 12- in the other; I'll put it at 12a as it felt harder than the 11d's I did.  Smaller fingers are going to help on this one.

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Obvious crack between Blind Faith and Lava Flows

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Rack up to a 0.3 camalot, heavy on 0.2 and 0.3-sizes; a #2 camalot can be used near the start. 2-bolt anchor.

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