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The Diamond

5.9 PG13, Trad, 30 ft (9 m),  Avg: 0.8 from 4 votes
FA: unknown
Tennessee > Sunset Park > Sunset North

Description

All the guidebooks have this one at 5.7. Beginner leaders will be sorely disappointed! We felt this was harder than its neighbor, More Fun with Dick and Jane.

Weasel your way up the crack for 20 feet or so to a ledge. Clamber onto the ledge alongside a blob of rock. The top section of the blob is completely detached, so tread lightly.

Be sure to get protection in at the ledge, as the final section of climbing is completely unprotectable. Swing out left onto the face above the ledge, and boulder your way up to the tree atop the next ledge.

Location

The first section of climbs you come to after hiking down from the top of Sunset Rock. About 10 feet right of the More Fun with Dick and Jane flake, a finger and hand crack zig zags up and right to a ledge. About halfway up, the crack has a pod that allegedly looks like a diamond.

Protection

light rack, a tree atop the upper ledge can be used as a toprope or rappel anchor