Sheep in Wolf's Clothing  5.10

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Type:  Trad, 1 pitch, 90 feet Consensus:  5.10 [details] FA:  Charlie Fowler, solo, Dec. 1986 Submitted By:  Ben Kiessel on Apr 23, 2007 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (2) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

BETA PHOTO: This photo was taken of 'The Lamb' by Brad Brandew...

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Description 

The first 20' of this route is shared with Virgin Wool on Sheep Rock. Climb up the slabby sandy loose corner until you can cut right on a ledge to access the crack system on The Lamb. Place some small cams and start up the crack that quickly widens to hands, pass a small roof and a OW pod. Above the pod is some less straight forward climbing and a traverse left over a solid block to the belay.

From the belay climb 15' up the obvious OW/chimney and scramble to the summit. Down climb to the anchor. A spotter is nice.

Location 

The route follows the crack system on the Northeast face of The Lamb.

Protection 

Everything from tiny to a new #5 camalot. A few extra #2 and #3 camalots might be useful. One 60 meter rope is enough to get down. Anchor consists of 2 bomber drilled pins. Bleached webbing was replaced with brown cord as of 4/13/07.