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Peak Mountain 3

Diamond in the Rough

FA Giovanni Gieco, 03/31/2020
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Description

This is on the slab side of Two Face Boulder. It has the most quality rock in this area south of the rock.

This route starts middle left. It has good feet to start and solid high hands on the one slightly suspicious piece of obvious conglomerate on the route. This route was made much easier by my height but overall only requires three static moves to the top. The reason it's named Diamond in the Rough is because this side of Two Face Boulder is much more slab like with almost no cobbles or rocks in the boulder. There is one rhombus-shaped, diamond-looking piece of composite that looks suspect but held my weight. That singular piece brings this climb down a half grade, if and when it pops, this would be just a bit harder. It's likely people have climbed these boulders at some point, but no chalk, the routes are pretty raw, and nothing on MP or in guidebooks, so I'll call it FKA (First Known Ascent).

Location

This is on Two Face Boulder which is just south of the main road headed up to the top of Rock Park. There's probably potential for some real grades on this one - the arete on the far right side looks fun and double but a little harder and worth having a spotter for (which I did not, unless you count a wandering crag dog).