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Peak Mountain 3

Crescent Arch

FA Ken Duncan, 1977
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Description

This is the very obvious, left-facing dihedral on the right side of the wall, to the right of Pressure Drop and

Finger-Lickin Good

. It is actually the right side of the crescent that is the wall's namesake. The bottom two-thirds of the pitch is wide and 5.10 with very little actual off-widthing required. Oddly, the 5.11 climbing starts when it turns to hands and the corner begins arching out left more. When the corner begins to drastically arch to the left (almost horizontal) an exit out right presents itself. Cross a tiny, left-facing corner (small wire) on your way out of the main corner and pull onto a slab on the right. This part felt like 5.11 to me, too. There's a fixed anchor out right on the slab (old bolts if my memory serves). Rap from here (two ropes) or continue with a short, easy pitch to a descent ledge. This is an awesome pitch (nearly 150' long) with a beautiful, aesthetic line and burly crack climbing throughout, offwidth to thin-hands. There might be a little bird-poop residue in one section of the corner and a few creaky-flake crimps on the finishing slab, but the overall quality is undiminished.

Protection

Hefty rack with doubles from #0.75 to #4 Camalot (maybe triples of 3s) and one #5 Camalot.