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Nate A. leading pitch 1.
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The thin crack at the start of pitch 1 protects well with RPs.
Hope you like jammin too. This short 5.8 crack that starts P2 is probably some of the most positive hand and foot jamming at Lumpy. None of that flaring, hurt-your-feet stuff you get elsewhere. Lennie is cruising solid jams here with gear placements that could hold a freight train. Too bad it's only 40 feet and not 400.
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Steph Abegg
Aug 22, 2023
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Hope you like jammin too. This short 5.8 crack that starts P2 is probably some of the most positive hand and foot jamming at Lumpy. None of that flaring, hurt-your-feet stuff you get elsewhere. Lennie is cruising solid jams here with gear placements that could hold a freight train. Too bad it's only 40 feet and not 400.
On the P3 variation. A couple of jams and big incut buckets make this pretty easy. The top is just above.
The pitch 2 hand crack leans left, so, despitee the great jams, it's awkward. It's often easier to paste your feet on the slab rather than keeping then on the narrow "ramp" just left of the crack. Luke Clarke belaying.
Getting gear before the crux moves. Lenny Miller belaying. The route continues right of the small tree and then left along a ramp to the pitch 2 hand crack at the top center of the photo.
A route overlay for Short Circuit.
Pitch 2 splitter.
The thin crack at the start of pitch 1 protects well with RPs.
Nate A. leading pitch 1.
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