Just for Starters  5.10a

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Type:  Sport, 1 pitch, 140 feet, Grade II Consensus:  5.10a [details] FA:  The Anderson Family Submitted By:  Dominic Albanese on Nov 5, 2007 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (27) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Jerry Miller at the crux of Just for Starters.

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Description 

Clip the first bolt and then make crux slab move. The climbing then eases and by the time you get into the sea of knobs enjoy the runout bolted 5.3 to the tree. The first move can be easily aided if necessary.

Location 

The first route just right of the gully that separates the Pot Belly wall and the main Sloth Wall. I rapped off the tree with a single 50m into the gully,but had to do some downclimbing in the gully to get back to the base.

Protection 

7 bolts to the tree rappel.
The bolts get spaced farther and farther apart as you get closer to the anchors but the climbing gets correspondingly easier.
Decent pine tree with reasonable slings at the top as of October 07.

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Nearing the top of this great climb