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All Locations > Colorado > Estes Park Valley > Lumpy Ridge > Bookmark > Backflip (5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c)
Below the 5.9 crux on P4. It's runout but relatively easy off the belay, then you get small but good gear up to the crux. This crux move seems easier to me than the P1 and P3 5.8 pitches.
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Chis right before the traverse...
Heading up the dihedral on the second pitch.
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Ivan Rezucha
Oct 24, 2004
“Below the 5.9 crux on P4. It's runout but relatively easy off the belay, then you get small but good gear up to the crux. This crux move seems easier to me than the P1 and P3 5.8 pitches.”  

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Below the 5.9 crux on P4. It's runout but relatively easy off the belay, then you get small but good gear up to the crux. This crux move seems easier to me than the P1 and P3 5.8 pitches.
Heading up the dihedral on the second pitch.
Looking down pitch 1 flake/corner. Fun stuff.
The thin crack on pitch 3. (You can also climb cracks further to the right, a bit easier.)
Hanging onto hollow rock!
End of the traverse....
Pitch 4 (thin crack).
The first pitch.
Backflip.
Ted Handwerk at the undercling traverse on the second pitch.
Paul on the first pitch.
Scott Conner starting up the first pitch.
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