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Dr. Dias 

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Type: Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet
Consensus: 5.9+ [details]
FA: B. Wade and ??? Fall 09
Submitted By: Seth Maciejowski on Apr 16, 2012

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Description 

Fantastic pitch! Nice exposure and handcrack high up on a bottomless arete. Good trad sections and bolts where you need em'. Start on Birch Tree corner and break right about 50' up at a line of 3 bolts on an awesome face. Follow this to a sweet crack and an awesome stemming finish!


Location 

Up and right of the wet brown face directly above the approach trail and on the way to the chockstone crack is a huge open left facing corner. This is birch tree corner. Start up it for 50' then break right above the big overhang.


Protection 

gear to hand sized. There's even a nice old pin on the lower section of birch tree to keep with tradition



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By Chris Duca
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From: Hinesburg, Vermont
Aug 8, 2012
rating: 5.9+

super fun facing climbing with a little exposure, to boot, above the dirty Birch Tree corner. The crack above the line of 3 bolts was short and, to me, seemed more fingery than thin hands (one actual hand jam) with a lot of suspect flakes/chockstones within the crack and horizontal break at about 2/3 height.

By Keyan P
From: Burlington, VT
Sep 7, 2012

Very fun route! Secure with good simple gear at the bottom and upper cracks, and a well bolted face traverse up high. Doesn't get enough love.

For gear I used, roughly in order: #3, #2, #0.75, some nuts, yellow mastercam