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Gorilla Crack

Name: Gorilla Crack
Rating: 2.4

5.10a YDS 6a French 18 Ewbanks VI+ UIAA 18 ZA E1 5a British

Routes in D. Bedrock

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	Bam Bam S 5.13c 8a+ 30 X- 31 E7 7a
	Barney's Crack T 5.12a/b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6a
	Bear, The T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Bedrock's Latest T,S 5.12d 7c 28 IX 28 E6 6b
	Betty T,S 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Black Betty S 5.11c/d 7a 24 VIII 25 E4 6a PG13
	Dream Team S 5.12d 7c 28 IX 28 E6 6b
	Fred Flintstone's Delight T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Gorilla Crack T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Redeem Team S 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
	Soft Like Moss S 5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a
	Squeeze, The T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Stoneage Struggle T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Thin Wires T 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Wally World T 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Yabba Dabba Doo S 5.11b/c 6c+ 23 VIII- 24 E4 6a

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Type:	Trad, 100 ft (30 m)
FA:	unknown
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Description

This is a wide crack, and it has bat shit!!!

Per Ben Kiessel: although this route has bat poop, you don’t have to touch it. It also has some loose rock, but it is a good wide-crack adventure. Wrestle up a wide, left-facing corner to a roof, pull through into a wide splitter, pass the guano block, then work left to a little stance at the base of a big flake on the arete. Climb up the flake via the hand crack on the arete.This has awesome exposure! Don’t get sucked left - keep it proud, and continue straight up the varied crack climbing to a bolted chain anchor with Mussy hooks at the top.

If you are feeling smoked on the arete below the flake, it is possible to climb up and left into the chimney and then finish on a easy thin crack on the right wall of the chimney higher up.