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Pat's Blue Ribbon 

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Type: Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet
Consensus: 5.13- [details]
FA: P. Kingsbury, A. Klaarstrom, Alf Randall spring 2009
New Route: Yes
Submitted By: TomKingsbury on May 21, 2009

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Description 

A steep finger splitter that goes through a roof at the start, changes cracks at a fracture, and has a crux sequence from the pod to the arete.


Location 

north face of the optimator, always shady. 5 minutes lookers right of the 'optimator' route.


Protection 

mostly yellow and grey aliens, yellow C3 helpful and a blue alien (or 2) towards the top. rap from chains



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By TomKingsbury
May 21, 2009



crux action...

By m-earle
From: Concord, MA
May 28, 2009

Good fucking find man! looks amazing. I'll have to check that out.

By Patrick Kingsbury
Jul 28, 2010

Hope you do check it out Mason!! Its a hell of a line, and would not have gone with out Andres figuring out the crux beta!!! Thanks again Andres!!!!

By Corona
Oct 18, 2012

What a beaut!