Fukushima Release
5.12- YDS 7a+ French 25 Ewbanks VIII+ UIAA 25 ZA E5 6a British
| Type: | Trad, 45 ft (14 m) |
| GPS: | 38.04694, -109.55072 |
| FA: | CK/CN |
| Page Views: | 635 total · 18/month |
| Shared By: | Cory N on Sep 18, 2023 |
| Admins: | slim, Cory N, Perin Blanchard, GRK, David Crane, Nathan Fisher |
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Description
Start in a right facing corner with a small boulder problem off the ground into a tips crack. Work your way up to a 5' long roof finger crack in a corner, not as hard as it looks from the ground. Pull around the lip roof with some burly moves and a harder than it looks sequence. Establish yourself in the shallow box under an imposing hanging block roof. We found the block to be softer stone, but stuck in place. Clip the bolt and make some more challenging and really fun moves to pass the block. Once on top of the block you are pretty much home free, reach right and clip the chains.
Rope management adds to the difficulty of the climb. It'd be really hard not to place a piece at the corner the of the roof, its also really hard not to get that piece pushed into the roof. On the aid FA we had two ropes and dropped the first one after the corner. On the FFA CK just dealt with the rope drag and pushed through to the chains but made sure not to weight the rope at the top to avoid pushing the cam in the corner in.
The hanging block should continue clean up with more ascents, we took off everything that was real loose. In addition the face on the right side of the finger crack has some little nubs that look like calcite but occasionally disappear when weighted.
Location
On the Nuclear side of Sindbad/Nuclear, morning shade. Take a right at the top of the approach trail. You can't miss the roof, you can see it from the parking.
Protection
triples of .3 and .4, doubles of .5, one .75, and one quickdraw. Lots of slings. Could be a really good idea to extend all of your pieces under the roof and the back clean the last .3 after you place the first piece in the roof.
You can bring a micro cam; purple metolius or black alien from the very top, but you can pretty much reach the chains from there.



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