Corkscrew V5
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| Type: | Boulder |
| Consensus: | V6- [details] |
| FA: | Jeff Achey, late '80s, early '90s |
| Submitted By: | tobin sanson on Mar 15, 2009 |
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BETA PHOTO: Corkscrew: Red The main squeeze: Blue Battle of th...
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Description Be prepared to scratch your head at this one. Start on the obvious flat rail and make you way up the corner.
Location This is the first problem you come to when you arrive at the Corkscrew Boulder.
Protection Pad.
This is the easy part.
| Going for the face in beta.
| Photo: Lynn Sanson.
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By Evan Winn Sep 19, 2009 rating: V6-7
| Every year the crimp up at about 7 feet gets smaller. I think ultra-super-technical V6 or regular old V7 is more like it, but I can only send it with the face out 360 beta, which I hear is harder. My legs are a little short for the facing in variation. |
By tobin sanson From: Carbondale, CO Jun 14, 2011
| Here's a video I made of the problem:
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By Aeon Aki Administrator Jul 30, 2012 rating: V6
| FA Jeff Achey, late '80s, early '90s. JA discovered the "corkscrew" beta and called it V6. "The Main Squeeze" the compression arete to the right when facing this problem is his as well and goes at about V8. |
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