Type: Trad, 900 ft (273 m), 8 pitches, Grade III
FA: Joe french, Bryan Bird
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Shared By: Danger-Russ Gordon on Apr 4, 2014
Admins: Andrew Gram, Nathan Fisher, Perin Blanchard, GRK, D C

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Excellent route!! tons of fun mostly easy climbing, an awesome summit, and a bit of bush whacking to complete this Zion adventure.

3 parts worth mentioning:

- pitch 2 has decent holds but often deep, and its in almost a chimney at times, it really sucks for the 2nd if they have a pack, try to go light and fast, we averaged 30 mins per pitch on the first go with out trying to hard.

- The physical crux for us was the start of pitch 5, thruth fest small roof with bad feet unless you can stem very well. the pro is only ok there

- Mental crux was the last pitch, solid 5.9 moves with what i felt was almost pg-13 pro. I had to ooze in and out of a chimney to get some sort of pro, i guess you could take a large big bro or something...

The summit at the bridge mountain arch (aka Crawford arch) is all worth it!!

Location Suggest change

Starts right next to smash-mouth. take the normal path to confluence, and keep going around the corner until you see the big roof.

Protection Suggest change

a set of double BD cams from .3 - 3, a 4 and a 5 is all you should need. Stoppers if you want, we did not use any, and we took a few triples we never needed, and I would not consider myself overly bold. bring a few extra slings, and a few alpine draws.

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