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Dead Snag Direttissima

Name: Dead Snag Direttissima
Rating: 2.4

5.8- YDS 5b French 16 Ewbanks VI- UIAA 14 ZA VS 4c British

Routes in The Dead Snag

L › R R › L A › Z

	Ad Lib T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Alor 1 T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Call Me Slim T 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Dead Snag Direttissima T 5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c
	Die Another Day T 5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c
	Double Bock T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	East Dihedrals T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Force of Nature T 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Funk T 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
	Gypsy Girl S 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
	Jig's Up T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	North Dihedrals T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	R&B T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Rock! T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Social Engineering T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Steorts' Ridge T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Tiger's Den T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Time Going By S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c

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Type:	Trad, 230 ft (70 m), 2 pitches
FA:	unknown
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Shared By:	RKM on Oct 21, 2011
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Description

"I wish some day to make a route, and from the summit let fall a drop of water, and this is where my route will have gone" -- Emilio Comici

Of all the expanse of rock and places to climb on the Dead Snag, this stretch contains some of the best rock, most improbable moves (that are pretty easy) and highest angle of climbing.

Two 100+ pitches with a stance belay in the middle. This might share space with Tigers Den?

I found this route while adventure soloing. Kept climbing higher and higher thinking it would get ugly and I could traverse off. Never got hard, never traversed off - so - I came back with my son and lead it as a 'sort of' real climb.

Location

This fun route starts about 50' uphill from Steorts Ridge staging area. The beginning is a small vertical knife blade crack - just left of a big flake and block.

Step back from the start and draw an imaginary straight line up to the big diving board block on the top that overhangs the face (this block is about 20' left of the top out of Steorts).

Follow this exact line - not varying more than 5' to the left or the right. If you wander, your off route. Its a direct route, a directissama, a Comici route!

For sure you can climb all around this patch of rock, find better pro and find much easier climbing, but . . . the two blank shields of rock, mid height and two thirds height, are so clean and proud.