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Peak Mountain 3

P.D.W. (Pretty Damn Western)

FA Probably Taggart Cole, Abe Lowham (Taggart-Onsight free) (Abe-As Free as can be)
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Description

A wild line on deteriorating rock.

The crux is the third pitch,  traverse right on grassy cracks to a ledge with a wild 7/8 foot wide rectangular break in the rock with a crack on the left side.

Overcome the #5 overhanging crack

on the left side of a chimney/ wide cut out of the rock with enticing exposure, then into a roof

with wild stemming on the edge of the chimney feature

and good locks up one crack then at the roof reach high and right and switch to and to a hand crack that

cuts upwards and thins down to a #.1 sem which leads into a blank moderate face on somewhat crumbly rock onto a foot ledge and then the very top of the corner where without climbing the corner you walk on to the upper ledge and build an anchor save a BD #4 and some finger-sized gear for the anchor.

P1

Follow the ramp to a roof with a finger crack in it to the left of the corner about 60M 5.3

P2

Move up about 50 feet over the roof and follow the grassy crack to the base of the corner belay there with BD #1, #2, or, #3  sized gear. 5.9

P3

Next traverse right on grassy cracks to the base of the chimney feature and hold on to your reins because its about to get Pretty Damn Western!!

DECENT walk/ left to tree and rap off a cord with a non-locker, if still there or leave your own stuff, down to a gully their rap of a fallen tree that is jammed on top of a live tree no cord. 70 M rope is nice but probably not necessary F.A. was with 64 M rope but nothing was a rope stretcher

Location

Look for the big corner in the middle of the face and follow down the past of least resistance to the ground start up the forested ramps to access the "good" stuff

Protection

Doubles BD #2-.2 single BD .1, #3, #4, #5


Routes in Left Buttress AKA P.D.W. Buttress


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    P.D.W. (Pretty Damn Western)
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