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Peak Mountain 3

Kitties Dihedral

FA Mark Trainor
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Description

Marty's book notes: "Nice face with turns into a dihedral." Not sure what Mark was thinking as it makes much more sense to climb this as a crack climb the whole way, protecting with either gear or the bolts that are a foot or so to the right of the crack the whole way up. Or, you could completely avoid crack climbing, clip the bolts and climb the face the whole way, stemming into the dihedral. So, I guess you can call this two climbs in one -- do it both ways and see what you prefer!

Location

Towards the right side of Lion's Den. Marked by a random couple of old bolts going up a face to the right of a beautiful crack.

Protection

Seven bolts to a 2 shut belay, but the whole thing is easily done on gear with as many pieces as you feel like using (see photo of start). Note that the 2 shut belay is not placed to support rapping off the route. We walked south on top to rap from the top of "Sublime Line". I will place a nice rap and belay anchor when I return to develop here.


Routes in Lion's Den


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    Kitties Dihedral
    5.7
    Sport