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Peak Mountain 3

The Return of the Native

FA Skyeler Congdon, ground-up OS
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Description

I had my eye on this line for years but never had the courage to go ground-up until today. Not sure this is a first ascent and will happily change the info. This problem in some ways marks my return to climbing after a 8 year hiatus and return to establishing tall problems in my hometown.

Begin standing with good edges and poor feet (avoiding a detached rock on the right). Throw up and left to good pockets, and make a cruxy sequence past a mono. Beyond the mono the climbing heads slightly left and is committing, and care is needed moving past a juggy, yet thin crimp.

Gently overhung the whole way, with graceful movement on bomber rock.

Location

From the big parking lot, look north up to the cliff band (what's evidently called "Wandering Wall). The tallest piece of cliffband is on the far left side (but looker's right of the trail that heads north uphill), and there is one section piece of beautiful, orange rock that looks really good. Once at the base of this, the line climbs about 6 feet right of a thin hands crack that splits the face. There is a mono about halfway up that is obvious. It has uncommonly good rock.

Protection

A great landing, but you'd want at least one crashpad.