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Rating: 3 - not knowing what this was and it not being in the book, i guessed it at 5.10d based on my onsight experience
View ArticleOnly a Crow
Rating: 3 - especially when compared to sandbagged Romancing The Stone (5.10c). Send both and feel the difference yourself.not that hard to figure out crux. find the two right hand clipping holds at...
View ArticleRaven
Rating: 3 - certainly hope no ones falls before clipping the next protection in the traversing run outs. terrible route development for the grade (or any for that matter). fun climbing, horrible...
View ArticleMurk Trench
Rating: 2 - seems like the last bolt is forcing the climber onto harder features than 10a. felt like the line of weakness was the left side causing a potentially bad fall with the last bolt far to the...
View ArticleRack for Sale
Rating: 3 - but may be a bit spicy in distance between bolts for a beginner. was climbing anything dry enough to climb in this crazy wet month of June/July 2013
View ArticleTechnical Second
Rating: 3 - above all those sharp-edged rock features. top was wet and just barely got the fingers to stick in solid wet seam at the top. wow, quite the high step to get up to the anchors!
View ArticleDirty Dozen
Rating: 2 - Wet. seemed like cryptic features requiring quite the power for the grade. run out to bolt #1 over the big drop off behind the belayer (and wet, too). Especially run out between #4 and 5 on...
View ArticleCouch Potato
Rating: 2 - so i guess i was a little surprised that I had a little trouble getting over the sandbag at the top. a bit wet and poorly bolted, too.
View ArticleBullwinkle Craters
Rating: 3 - enjoyed working out the sequence (footwork) then sending it
View ArticleUnnamed
Rating: 3 - This is the name of the route and the grade according to Ward Smith's 2009 guidebook.Wish the route had 2 or 3 times more of the first 15 feet.
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