Ale 81 

FA:  Jeremy Rice, 1998 Type:  Sport Consensus:  5.10c [details] Length:  1 pitch, 60 feet Views: 172 page views Submitted By: Chuck Parks on Jan 31, 2008 Add Photo  Add Comment

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Ale 81, Sandrock, AL

Description 

Start by climbing the same boulder as for Popular Science, but start a bit to the right and head for the finger crack to the right of Popular Science. Reach up and clip the first bolt, then a funky move gets you off the boulder and into the joys of climbing a conglomerated finger crack. Things soon turn to face climbing, and before you know it you're at the anchors!

Location 

Left end of the Sun Wall. Starts off the same boulder as Popular Science (Golden Flake), but a little to the right.

Protection 

4 bolts, anchors -- The 5.6 "runout" to the anchors that is mentioned in the guidebook really isn't that bad. When you get there, you'll probably be perfectly comfortable not placing any additional protection.