Type: Trad, 1151 ft (349 m)
FA: M. Schaefer, C. Henson
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Shared By: blakeherrington on Jul 25, 2012 · Updates
Admins: Jon Nelson, Micah Klesick, Zachary Winters

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A lesser-done Index classic with lots of variety. There are multiple 5.10 sections, with stemming, slabbing, and crack climbing, all separated by rests. From the anchor atop Slow Children, step left and stem up toward a bolt, roof, and slab. Atop the slab, a hard v-slot move gains a large left-facing corner and more stemming, leading left (with gear) to a stance beneath the large roof. Pull the bolted roof (crux?) and follow a finger and hand crack to anchors atop the lower town wall.

Adding this to the 3 pitches below makes for a great stretch of climbing with each pitch ~ 2 letter grades harder than the one before.

This pitch should get done a lot more, and it needs the traffic to keep it clean.

From the anchor of Tommy’s Sandbox, traverse skiers left to the anchor for Park Ranger. A 70m easily gets you back to the Slow Children anchor. Rappelling from the Tommy’s anchor is a rope stretcher and not recommended. Multiple people have come up short with 70s from the Tommy’s anchor to the Slow Children anchor.

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This takes the line above/left of the anchor atop Slow Children, and pulls a roof obviously visible from the railroad tracks.

Protection Suggest change

Bring a lot of runners and draws, ~10 or so at least.

A single set of cams to #2 and a few wires (you'd likely have these to have arrived 3pitches up) is fine.

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