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Peak Mountain 3

Casting Stones

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Description

Steep entabulature sloper wrangling. There is a sweet roof at the top of the climb where the rock changes from entabulature to a big orange/tan face with a tiny seam running through it. The bolt is right where you need it and clippable before entering the crux.

The crux revolves around managing to get your paws into the couple spots where the seam opens up enough for marginal jamming. Crux may seem very hard for the grade at first but dumbs down with beta. Similar in difficulty to Aboriginal Designs.

Location

This climb currently does not have a proper start. It should start in the dirty, currently unprotectable corner to the left of the start of Stones in the Pathway, but there aren't any bolts. If you have some finger sized cams / nuts, I guess you could place them in the ditry crack You'll know the base of this route by the ~leg sized tree that was cut down a couple feet right of t's base, freshly as of 2020.

Best bet now is to climb the start of Stones in the Pathway and clip the two bolts protecting that corner with a couple alpine draws and deal with a little rope drag. Or you could do what I did and just solo this ~5.7 corner, watching out for the bits of moss/lichen that make the rock slippery in spots.

Protection

8 bolts