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Peak Mountain 3

Fastest Drill

FA Ed Webster, Mack Johnson, Dave Sweet, 4/78
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Description

The route name could also by the "Quickest Drill". Traverse left from the

Cowboy Boot Crack

ledge to the leftmost line of bolts. It is a long exposed traverse with zero protection. Once you clip the first hanger, head up. The crux is just above the second bolt. It is a balancy step up. Commit to it, clip the third bolt and get to the anchors. This can be top-roped (like

Trigger Finger

and

Cowboy Boot Crack

) from the large ledge, barely. The belayer should tie a knot in the end of your rope (as always) and be prepared to step up the rock a bit.

Addendum: follow the first 2 or so pins on

Trigger Finger

. When

TF

goes straight up, you can follow Fastest Drill to the left. It shares the same anchors as

Unzipped

. They are kind of left of center at the bottom of the dome (about even with the climber's feet in the

Trigger Finger

pic).

Protection

5 QDs for 5 bolts/pins plus two anchor pins (all of them solid).

The anchor pins have been replaced with 2 large bolts.