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Crescent Arch - 5.9
Average Rating : 4.60 out of 5
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Route Summary | Ascent Notes (34)
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Layton Kor, Fred Becky (June 1965)
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Description:
Hailed as one of the best routes in tuolumne. VERY HARD for the rating and awkward. The "arch" pitch climbs a dihedral that slowly curves it's way to horizontal. Thin lieback, thin feet, and thin gear. Stimulating!
Submitted by: bcd on 2003-09-25
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Route ID: 20665
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| Difficulty | 5.10a |
| Safety Rating | G |
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Tuolumne Classic
Pretty stout for the grade...sustained awkward 5.9 on p2 and p4. The "10b" crux is short and over pretty quickly.
Added: 2014-06-30
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| Difficulty | 5.10a |
| Safety Rating | G |
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Fantastic, but do the normal 2 rap descent.
What an awesome climb. Better than west crack but much harder. True that the "10b crux" was much easier than the sustained nature of the climb. Tried to find the walk off but instead ended up down soloing some crack (not my best of ideas; not recommended! But it would be a good beginners crack on lead). When the "descent" got scary I had to put on climbing shoes and luckily we found some old rapping station that barely put us down single rap w a 70m rope (we lowered right to the cool "tunnel" that you find when you do the normal 2 rope rap from the top)
Added: 2013-07-29
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| Safety Rating | G |
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Added: 2012-08-02
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| Difficulty | 5.10a |
| Safety Rating | G |
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Super route!
Whether this route is 5.9 or 5.10, it's hard! The supposed 5.10 crux was actually a welcome relief from the sustained hard 5.9 climbing. It was a great route, and doesn't get nearly the traffic that West crack does.
Added: 2011-07-25
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| Difficulty | 5.10a |
| Safety Rating | PG13 |
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Tuolumne Classic
P2 is the crux, not P4. Solid belays for every pitch, huge ledge at the top of P3. Possible to bail off the route at first 3 belay stations. Bring plenty of slings.
Added: 2011-01-19
