Initiation Crack 

FA:  Matta, Doug Robinson Type:  Trad Consensus:  5.11a [details] Length:  1 pitch, 60 feet Views: 137 page views Submitted By: Matt Toensing on Jun 3, 2009 Add Photo  Add Comment

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Tim at the base of Initiation Crack

Description 

The crux is right off of the ground. Jam the tips crack through a small, slippery bulge. The crux is over when it is possible to get your whole finger in the crack to jam. Then mantle onto a ledge and jam the 5.6 hand sized splitter to a ledge with a bolted anchor.

Location 

About 40 feet to the right of lieback crack. It is the obvious splitter to the right of the thin crack.

Protection 

I used an old BD yellow cam (I think it is .2 size piece) so a blue TCU is probably suffecient. Then a .3 BD (Blue) size piece and a .4 (Grey) BD size piece. Then some wires and hand size pieces for the rest of the climb.