Ginsu Flake  5.9+

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Type:  Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet Consensus:  5.9+ [details] FA:  Michael Hartrich and Matt Peer Submitted By:  M Sprague on May 4, 2010 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (2) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

Maybe 30 feet to the right of the approach trail, just past Greenpeace, is a fun looking, sparsely bolted left leaning thin flake that goes part way up the wall. Layback and jamb up the flake, trying to avoid getting too pumped. After the last bolt, look to escape right and up to the anchors; two new bolts with biners.

Justin Preisendorfer kindly sent this information: "Tim and I put 3 bolts in the flake by hand on the lead but didn't have the right size pins to leave an anchor. You can easily downclimb to the right at easy fifth class to get off without leaving gear though it would be nice to have an anchor there. A couple years after we bolted that line I learned from Matt Peer that he and Hartrich had climbed it 20 years earlier. We talked about the bolts and decided to leave them because one fall on a cam would definitely blast the flake to bits. Hartrich has balls of steel."

Protection 

a handful of bolts and standard rack. Two #4 Camalots are handy, but you can leap frog if you have only one. Tread carefully on the flake.

There is a new c2010 bolted anchor at the top.

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