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At the top of P4, the 5.8 fist crack shared with East Prow. Mostly face climbing with only a few mandatory crack moves.
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Guy at the mantle, P2.
Looking down from the top of P3. Chuck has just traversed left past the second bolt. To Chuck's right (left on the photo) you can see the final cracks and flakes before the traverse.
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Ivan Rezucha
Aug 16, 2004
“At the top of P4, the 5.8 fist crack shared with East Prow. Mostly face climbing with only a few mandatory crack moves.”  

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A route overlay of East Prow & Age Axe.
Old bolt on pitch 3.
Taken from Keyhole on Longs Peak. Age Axe exits left near the bottom of the left of the two large crescent-shaped corners and then up just left of the left arete of that corner. Up a flake system and then up the right most crack in the sunny orange rock to a large terrace. It then climbs up from the right end of the terrace to the big shelf below the summit. Descend left on scree then back right down a ramp that is obvious in this photo but hard to see from above, or continue descending further left and then easily down.
The final pitch if taking the Age Axe exit. Fun 5.10b. Watch out for a big block midway up that seems like it could detach some day.
A photo overlay of Age Axe.
Pitch 5 (crux 10b pitch).
Pitch 5 (the 5.4 pitch).
Guy at the mantle, P2.
At the top of P4, the 5.8 fist crack shared with East Prow. Mostly face climbing with only a few mandatory crack moves.
Looking down from the top of P3. Chuck has just traversed left past the second bolt. To Chuck's right (left on the photo) you can see the final cracks and flakes before the traverse.
On the fun knobby runout. Last gear is at the orange block near the center of the photo. This section is really exposed, because you're hanging out over the steep wall on the right. The P4 dihedral is just right of Chuck in the photo, but is really about 170' higher.
Starting the crux moves on P2. Chuck eventually got gear higher on the right with hopes of avoiding a fall onto the slab.
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