Smoke Down  5.11a

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Type:  Sport, 1 pitch, 40 feet Consensus:  5.11- [details] FA:  Steve Sangdahl, John Baldwin, Tom Englebach, 1996 Submitted By:  Ivan Rezucha on Jul 8, 2006 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (15) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Stepping up to the crux roof. The corner to the le...

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Description 

Decent climbing, but short. As Rolofson says, "Don't be fooled", it's much harder than it looks. Angle left past the first bolt and mantle onto a ledge. Move left around the arete and up to the roof. At this point you are just right of Wired which escapes out left around the roof. Layback the right side of the roof, crux, via one of at least two methods.

This felt much harder to everyone in our group of 3 than either Consilience or Gyromancy which we had done clean earlier in the day. We all fell and hung several times on Smoke Down. Perhaps it's not technically harder, but it's harder to do clean due to the steepness and treachery of the layback.

Location 

On the right side of Black Widow where the rock becomes really grungy. Just right of Wired, a right-facing, right leaning trad corner capped by a roof.

Protection 

5 bolts, 2-bolt anchor with rings.

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Climbing past the first bolt is treacherous.	Move left around the arete and balance up to the r...	The crux. You can either layback all the way up or...
"Barn door" crux.