Type: Trad, 80 ft (24 m)
FA: Tom Hayden and Sandy Dunlap, May 1972
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Description Suggest change

Start straight up from the Gunklandia second (often first) pitch bolted anchor. Climb through some easy ledges to the short but sweet hand crack and into an easy offwidth section. Head out left on the flake and up the short left facing corner to the top.

Location Suggest change

A mid-cliff START: Straight up from the Gunklandia bolted belay, look for the left leaning flake on the face above.

Protection Suggest change

Standard rack, a #3 might be helpful for the flake but is in no way necessary.

History (from Sandy Dunlap's suggestion) Suggest change

First Ascent. Tom Hayden and I (Sandy Dunlap) did the first ascent in May 1972 and we wrote it up in "Appalachia" (the AMC journal) in the June 1973 issue (page 163-165) with Illustrations by Bill Atkinson. We later learned that the first pitch of our climb, which Tom led, had been done before (Gunklandia). I led the crack and flake upper pitch, scraping inch high lichen off with my feet as I went out the flake. We took a picture afterwards and one can see our relatively light footprints in the black lichen. I recently retired and am sorting through old photos; when I find the Birch Ade shots, I will add them to the site.

Sandy Dunlap

303-476-0295

sandydunlap@comcast.net

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