Golden Labs  5.9+

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Type:  Trad, 70 feet Consensus:  5.10a [details] FA:  Submitted By:  Mike Teschke on Jun 16, 2009 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (5) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

A left trending flake. Starts off with a slightly overhanging lay back hand crack up onto the ramp like flake that moves up left, the flake narrows to the point where you can't easily stand on it about the same time the jams move from nice hand jams to rattly fingers. The last half of the climb was quite burly and felt harder than 5.9 for me.

Location 

Just about half way between the top of Slot Machine and Xenolith Dance. It is a somewhat obvious flake just on the right side of bottom of the upper descent gully that has the fixed lines.

Protection 

Good selection of hand to finger sized gear. Chained rap anchor. 60m rope works nicely.