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Peak Mountain 3

Eternal Recurrence

FA equipped by Steve Damboise/ Peter Beal, FFA Peter Beal
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Description

Eternal Recurrence is the route right of

Primeval

. Start with a difficult, short groove that leads to the big, central shelf. Sit down and rest. Then tackle the upper bulge by traversing back left to a very difficult move to the obvious rail. A technical and balancy rockover leads to the final groove and the anchors. I'm not grading this, because to me the route is really two roped boulder problems with a sit-down rest in between, the first being V9/10 and the upper being solid V10. Since others may find these sections easier, as happened with

Primeval

, or find a way around them, as with

Shine

, I won't be more specific.

(Now that this route has gone eight years without a repeat, I am upgrading it to 5.14a in the hope that it will gain more traffic and there will emerge a better consensus on the difficulty)

Protection

8 bolts/anchors.