Don't Look a Gift Block...
5.10+ YDS 6b+ French 21 Ewbanks VII+ UIAA 20 ZA E3 5b British
Avg: 2 from 1 vote
Type: | Trad, 80 ft (24 m) |
FA: | John Steiger, Ray Ringle 1983 |
Page Views: | 175 total · 10/month |
Shared By: | adrian montaño on Jun 19, 2023 |
Admins: | adrian montaño, Greg Opland, Brian Boyd, JJ Schlick, Kemper Brightman, Luke Bertelsen |
Description
The crack system right of the huge downward-pointing flake on the left side of the wall.
Same year & FA as Castles.
Starts down & right of a small tree ~15 feet up. Tricky pro through step-like ledges with increasingly interesting movement brings you to an aesthetic but hollow flake halfway to the diagonal cracks up high. A fall onto this gear has the potential to explode the flake (I'd use stoppers instead of cams). Super fun but committing moves lead to another smaller & thinner flake below the mantle to a stance underneath the undercling traverse just below the cracks.
Reach high to place a bomber gold offset, then step up into the airy traverse dancing along small feet, making long reaches in between awesome fingerlocks. A long move to the next crack that makes up the "Gift Block" leads to sinker hand jams & casual climbing left to the ledge with a tree to your right. (~ 80 feet)
Do not clip the mussy hook lower off chain for Africa Flake, continue right on the ledge until reaching a two bolt anchor to rap & clean.
Pitch one is worth doing. Pitch two climbs the short 5.9 dihedral above this tree to a walk off.
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