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Description
Do you love wide? Do you like endless #6s? Then this climb is for you! A fun flare with a #2-#3 crack in the back takes you to a mini roof where you must switch sides while jamming through #4s that quickly widen to #5s. Milk the rest above the lip because from here you have nearly 100' of sustained 5.5-7" crack climbing! The crack quickly pinches down to a #1 size just before the anchors, with some stemming & optional wide crack to the left to help de-pump.
There is an optional short pitch that continues above.
1x70m rope barely gets you down from the lower anchors.
Pamela named this route after one of her beloved cats that has since passed on.
FYI: For those still using the Bloom guide, this was marked in there as an unnamed route done by Jay Anderson. This is wrong. Jay confirmed this. Pamela & Devin put in the bolts now there. The start used to be guarded by a precarious leaning pillar that split and the top 1/2 fell before Pamela & Devin went to work. Since 2019, a middle chunk has fallen off leaving a longer flare to climb, and the final leaning 1/3 may one day go but seems pretty stable right now.
Location
This is the first route left of Think Pink, marked by a detached pillar that is popping out from a flare left behind.
Protection
1-2x#1, 1x#2, 2x#3-4, 3x#5, 4-5x#6. Use 1x#2-3 at the start. Save the other 'small' cams for the finish.
Routes in Battle of the Bulge Buttress
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