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The Silver Tongue

Name: The Silver Tongue
Rating: 4.0

5.10c YDS 6b French 20 Ewbanks VII UIAA 20 ZA E2 5b British

Routes in Snow Creek Wall

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	Afterburner T 5.11+ 7a 24 VIII 24 E4 6a
	Edge of Space T,S 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
	Hyperspace T 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Iconoclast T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Mary Jane Dihedral T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Nebula (lite) "Nebulite" T 5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a
	Orbit T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c PG13
	Outer Space T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Psychopath T 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	RPM T 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
	RPM (2nd pitch early exit) T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Silver Tongue, The T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	White Slabs T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b PG13
	Yellow Wall T 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c

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Access Issue: Seasonal Raptor Closures Details

Each year, the USFS monitors for raptor nesting.

A pair of golden eagles regularly nest on Bridge Creek Wall. When in effect, starting January 1, PLEASE DO NOT CLIMB or travel within 1/2 mile of Bridge Creek Wall. As a reference, the climb Condorphamine Addiction is just outside of this 1/2 mile buffer, and is OK to climb still. The closure extends through August 15, but there is active monitoring to determine if the seasonal closure can be lifted earlier.

In 2014, there was an active pair of peregrine falcons at Snow Creek Wall, but no official closure was put in effect due to the location of the falcons. The site will be continually monitored with changes or removal of closures updated as necessary.

Description

An almost 60m journey up a gorgeous, highly featured slab. Trust your rubber and teeter up the slab passing two distinct cruxes. Enter the "Frog Flake" and enjoy good jams and gear before you have to punch it to the bolt. Use a runner on the bolt and make some very fun moves out left. Make a couple more cruxy moves passing another bolt. Finish by cruising up the low angle flake to a final bolt and anchors.

This makes a wonderful cragging pitch to start or finish your day on SCW.

You can rap with a 70m (60m maybe?) from the carabiners on the anchor. Rap down and climbers left. Please leave the carabiners for others to descend easily.

This pitch does seem to include a small part part of some long forgotten pitch which we aren't able to find any details of.

Location

Fund the huge tree where the 4th class part of the orbit/afterburner approach starts, lookers left from where the approach trail meets the wall. Starts at the lowest point of the wall.