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If you skip the bolts (which I recommend) this is the first anchor. The horizontal crack is perfect for plenty of #2 C4's (2 inches). A #4 (3.5 inches) protects well around the left but a #5 (4 to 4.5 inches) may have been better.
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leading the 1st pitch
Can you find all 7 people in this photo? 1 leader on the second pitch and 6 (!!!) people waiting at various belays on the first pitch. Taken from the empty first pitch of the groove after being 2 of the only 4 climbers on an empty and shady east wall.
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Colin R
Aug 9, 2015
“If you skip the bolts (which I recommend) this is the first anchor. The horizontal crack is perfect for plenty of #2 C4's (2 inches). A #4 (3.5 inches) protects well around the left but a #5 (4 to 4.5 inches) may have been better.”  

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