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Dr. Pants
Description
Dr. Pants, though a bit of an eliminate, is one of the best problems at the Ghetto - absolutely sustained crimping on a bullet-hard shield of rock.
It takes the very leftmost line of holds out the Underdog Cave, sharing a start with
Underdog
but finishing on a specific set of lip holds that are often ticked (if not, ask a local for the beta).
Begin as for
Underdog
, but instead of levering up to the pebble from the left-hand gaston, move into a crescent-shaped crimp high and left. Match up, power for a sidepull cup, reel it in and get a high left crimp/pebble, then snag the little two-finger pocket (with a sharp tooth) just below the huge bath-tub. Now, still avoiding the bathtub, shoot way left for a pink pebble (the original pebble, a barely-attached finger bucket that somehow stayed on for 6 or 7 years of travel, has since broken off -- anyone know who was it?) then move past the bathtub for crimpers on the vertical panel over the lip.
Stand up, and step off.
Protection
A thick T-shirt.
Routes in The Ghetto
- 9Dr. PantsV7Bouldering