Flipper Babies  5.8+

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Type:  Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet Consensus:  5.8+ [details] FA:  Tyler & Amy Phillips 5/04 New Route:  Yes Season:  Any but dead of summer Submitted By:  Orphaned on Jun 6, 2007 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

The crux come at 3/4 height, it involves leaving the crack and going hand traversing. On the FA I pounded a #2 angle in at the crux, I went back 2 years later and pulled it out with my finger (it even had a bail biner on it!!) Now a nice TCU fits in there. Its a GREAT "just got here, need to warm up" route.

Location 

When you are driving down the Burr Trail there is a large obvious slot canyon on its West side (only one), just across the road are these crack systems.Flipper Babies is the left hand crack of the two similar looking side by side crack systems. Take 10 steps from you car.

Protection 

#1 metolius to #3 camalot, maybe a sling. Replacement slings for the anchor might be nice.