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Sufficiently Breathless
Description
Once cleaned, this route revealed itself to be quite a gem!
Start up just left of the tunnel and make fun moves on jugs before reaching a slight left-trending crack system. At a small pod, clip the quick-link on a piton (solid) and then commence up the thin seam. Fun body positions and holds you might have to search for. Small nuts work well through here. Clip another solid piton and keep firing, enjoying the cool slopey edges. Plug a cam or two near the top, make a strenuous final pull and you're on the anchor ledge. Odd anchor bolt placement requires a final easy move to reach.
Extension into
Bluebird
: Continue up and to the right into the shattered flakes. Climb gingerly here - it is eerie but easy. Mount the pillar/flake, belay up your partner, and continue up
Bluebird
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Location
Just left of Tunnel #1
Protection
2 pitons, lots of small nuts, and cams to 1.25".
Routes in South Face
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