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Peak Mountain 3

Blownout

FA Jeff Thomas and Ken Currens, 1976
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Description

Beautiful long perfect dihedral after some interesting face work.

P1: The original approach was to traverse in from the left, up the grassy ledges below

Wild Turkeys

. Nowadays everyone climbs

Blownout Direct

(5.9+). To do it this way, climb the detached flake up to and around the tree to a ledge. Stem between the pillars and move into the technical seam with three pitons to a stance. Go straight up to a zig-zagging hand crack that takes you to the belay "in a protected corner beneath the great upper dihedral."

P2: 100 feet of dihedral! Stems, chimney moves, lieback, all you ever wanted! Strenuous bulge at the top. Beacon inside corner climbing at its finest.

Location

Start up hill from tunnel 1 at the base of a piller

Protection

Gear to 2.5"


Routes in South Face


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    Blownout
    5.10b/c
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