Rhino  5.9-

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Type:  Trad, 2 pitches, 300 feet Consensus:  5.9- [details] FA:  ? Season:  fall/spring Submitted By:  Rusty Pipe on Nov 9, 2010 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

The climb is great, after a scruffy approach up the gully it gets really quite good. It starts off with some cool thinner crack/corner climbing, quality short pitch 20m. Pitch 2 the money/brutal pitch 60m of off width to the summit of the eagles nest. We had a #6 BD that was just bumped for the whole pitch. The rock on this climb is very high quality, go do it.

I do not know why the name is Rhino, On the FA we called it "This is what you get when you f**k a stranger in the as*" From the movie the Big Lebowski.

Location 

South side, inside corner of Eagle's nest, ascends the spire. You can scramble up and aroud a chossy pitch at the bottom, or climb the choss

Protection 

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