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Peak Mountain 3

Fastest Drill

FA Ed Webster, Mack Johnson, Dave Sweet, 4/78
CREATED May 2023
UPDATED May 2023

Description

The route name could also by the "Quickest Drill". Traverse left from the

Cowboy Boot Crack

ledge to the leftmost line of bolts. It is a long exposed traverse with zero protection. Once you clip the first hanger, head up. The crux is just above the second bolt. It is a balancy step up. Commit to it, clip the third bolt and get to the anchors. This can be top-roped (like

Trigger Finger

and

Cowboy Boot Crack

) from the large ledge, barely. The belayer should tie a knot in the end of your rope (as always) and be prepared to step up the rock a bit.

Addendum: follow the first 2 or so pins on

Trigger Finger

. When

TF

goes straight up, you can follow Fastest Drill to the left. It shares the same anchors as

Unzipped

. They are kind of left of center at the bottom of the dome (about even with the climber's feet in the

Trigger Finger

pic).

Protection

5 QDs for 5 bolts/pins plus two anchor pins (all of them solid).

The anchor pins have been replaced with 2 large bolts.


2000 km
1000 mi