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FA: Ed Webster and Paul Ross July 1976
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Shared By: Lee Hansche on Feb 15, 2007 · Updates
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Climb Freedom or Windfall... From the anchor, head up the face just right of Thin Air's 3rd pitch, somewhat runout on 5.6 climbing....

Climb to a crack leading up to the intimidating, roof section...climb the crack and make a few cool moves through the first roof (crux #1) and trend left to a good horizontal where you can protect with a good sized cam or two....

Get a blue TCU or similar piece ready....

Crux #2 contains more moves... Head left on good but crumbly crimps and in to a sloper or two and up to a finger lock slot...Slide your TCU in there and down to leave room for the lock.... A few more hard moves as you head over the last roof to good holds....

I then set a good directional and head left and down to the Thin Air belay, so I can get a front row seat to watch my second in the crux....

Most parties finish on Thin Air, though there is an independent line to finish on it needs to be cleaned....

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This is the line going left through the orangish roofs just right of the chimney on Thin Air's 3rd pitch....

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Standard rack.... Keep a blue TCU handy for the crux....

I guess it is worthy to note that there is a long runout (30-40ft) on 5.6 climbing that leads to the start of the "real" climbing on this route so be ready to keep your head in the game on the easy start...

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