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Peak Mountain 3

Smithereens

FA Ed Kaufer and Scott Hoyle, 1979
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Description

This route and it's neighbor (

Young Lust

) lie on the shorter face left of

Rock Candy

and climb heavily featured thin cracks with lots of varnish.

Boulder up (small wire helpful) into a thin crack (crux), pass a horizontal around mid-height and then move past a large flake/ear and many features to finish in a right-slanting thin crack. The anchor is set back from the edge on a comfortable ledge so if planning to toprope you'll need to extend it.

Roughly the same difficulty as Young Lust, but the varied climbing and more interesting moves make this the better of the two routes. Two stars out of five.

Protection

Gear to to 2", bolted anchor/rap (3/8")