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Borgoff's Blunder
Description
West face of the North Gateway Rock. Start just south of the Blowouts bouldering area beneath a leftward-trending flake/crack. Climb the flake (5.6) and top out on a small ledge. Follow pins to your right and then up to a weird crux move (long reach and mantle on to a large ledge). Cruise up and to your left to a ledge near a tree, protecting either by slinging potholes (scant pro) or by tossing a large cam deep into one of the potholes (psychological pro). The climbing above the crux (to reach the anchors) is fairly easy (5.8), but I recall it being difficult to protect.Not the best route in the Garden, but worth doing if you're looking for something different.
Protection
Mainly old drilled angles, supplemented with a small Alien or two and a couple of long runners for slinging potholes. A couple of fist-size cams protects the easy start in the crack.
Routes in West Face
- 5Borgoff's Blunder5.10aSport · Trad