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The Countdown
Description
This is basically an alternate start to Last Man Standing. Start on the same hueco as The Road and traverse left along the lip of the roof on big holds. Once you reach the start of Last Man Standing, finish straight up that line. Steep and juggy for the first half, thin and vertical for the second half, awesome climbing throughout.
The Countdown avoids the first powerful campus move of LMS, but requires several more moves of steep climbing which adds a bit of pump, making the crux thin pulls feel slightly harder when you get to them. Probably a little easy for a V9 though.
You can also start sitting in the back of the cave and climb the hard compression moves of "The End of the Road" and link all that into LMS. This is called The Final Countdown (V12), and might still be the hardest established problem at Hartley.
Routes in Northwest Face
- 2The CountdownV9-Bouldering