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On the second pitch of Velvet Pedestal, just past the slab start, about to enter the layback crack.
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Start of Pitch 1.
Anchors for "the first way" as described in the text for p3 of this route ("from the right edge of the ledge, follow the pair of cracks to a ramp feature...") Photog Stephen Packard
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Jon Nelson
May 24, 2015
“On the second pitch of Velvet Pedestal, just past the slab start, about to enter the layback crack.”  

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