Tom onsighting the excellent first pitch.

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Tom onsighting the excellent first pitch.

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The money pitch. Beautiful exposure

Doing my best to blend in on the traverse. We opted to build the anchor at the bottom of the crux pitch crack, reducing drag and keeping my belayer in view through the tricky off fingers roof. I highly recommend doing it this way.

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AJ

Oct 20, 2015

“Tom onsighting the excellent first pitch.”

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