The Hole, Lizard Head Variation  5.6

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Type:  Trad, Alpine, 1 pitch, 50 feet Consensus:  5.6 [details] FA:  Submitted By:  M LaViolette Jr. on May 29, 2012 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (2) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Description 

Start up the right facing corner or the face left of the white spot to a horizontal crack just below a bulge. Pull up onto the bulge to a good stance and then move slighty left to a vertical crack which takes you to a leftward rising diagonal. Continue straight up from here to another prominent horizontal. Two feet above this is "the hole". From here traverse the horizontal leftwards for a few moves to a good stance below a vertical crack which will take you up to a shelf on the left of the obvious triangular block. It's a good idea to move along the shelf to the right side of the block here and place a piece and extend it with a double length sling to help keep the rope out of the crack, but I would recommend not putting anything under the triangle block. Once at the shelf climb up one more short 5 foot vertical crack to the left of the triangle and belay at a shelf just below the top.

Location 

This starts at the white spot and right facing corner 15 feet right of The Wright Wrong Chimney.

Protection 

Good gear throughout, mostly medium sized pieces.