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I'm placing a good nut on top of a good (currently) fixed nut at the start of the crux. Above this you can get 1 or 2 hand-sized cams, but it's hard to hang out there. The crux is over when your left leg is stemmed out to the small bush on the left. The route continues more easily from there with right side into the corner/chimney and left leg stemming.<br> <br> You can see from this photo that the big roof that looks almost horizontal from the ground is more like an overhanging corner.
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Photo by Luke Clarke.<br> <br> In the middle of the crux. Awkward hand jamming followed by a long reach to a wide jam and then stem out left.<br> <br> The exit crack is visible in the orange rock directly above the rightmost of the two bushes.
Pitch 1 from below. The grass does not detract from the climbing.<br> <br> There are a couple of hard routes on the left wall. Ramses 10c and Cat Dancing 11a are around the corner to the left. Alien Touch 11+ is the arete on the right side of the slab. Right of that is the deep Book of the Dead 9+ chimney. The left facing wall at the right of the photo shows the upper parts of Dead Boy 10b, Living Dead 11b, Road Kill 10b, etc.
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Ivan Rezucha
Jul 11, 2004
“I'm placing a good nut on top of a good (currently) fixed nut at the start of the crux. Above this you can get 1 or 2 hand-sized cams, but it's hard to hang out there. The crux is over when your left leg is stemmed out to the small bush on the left. The route continues more easily from there with right side into the corner/chimney and left leg stemming.

You can see from this photo that the big roof that looks almost horizontal from the ground is more like an overhanging corner.”  

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Photo by Luke Clarke.<br> <br> In the middle of the crux. Awkward hand jamming followed by a long reach to a wide jam and then stem out left.<br> <br> The exit crack is visible in the orange rock directly above the rightmost of the two bushes.

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Fort Collins, CO
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