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El Monte 

5.10b R

   

FA: Fred Zeil et al., 1979
Type: Trad
Consensus: 5.10b [details]
Length: 4 pitches, 400 feet
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Submitted By: Roger Linfield on Feb 24, 2006


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This route has four pitches, all low angle face climbing: 5.10A, 5.9, 5.9, and 5.10B. Pitches 1 through 3 are very runout. Pitch 2 is loose.


Protection 

bolts plus some gear



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By Woody Hoburg
Jul 27, 2007
rating: 5.10b R

I found gaining the first bolt on the first pitch confusing. I went up and right, placed gear, then back left into a thin groove (no gear) and up to the bolt. Not too runout the way I did it, but I might not have been on route. Going straight up without the detour right would have been decidedly runout.

By Adam Kimmerly
Aug 3, 2009

Climbed only P1. Getting to the first bolt was spicy indeed! I could see how Woody's beta for protection could make this a bot more safe. The climbing above the first bolt was adequately protected. Rap the first pitch (barely!) with a 60m rope.