a clean, short, south-facing finger crack

Just Another New Wave Route

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Popeye

I'd Slap You But Shit Splatters

The Acid Crack

A strenuous hand and fist roof crack. This is one of the few climbs on which I pulled a hamstring muscle.

Boulder up and balance onto a steep stance. Stretch to place your first piece(s) into the bottom of the left-slanting diagonal crack that curves into and above the corridor. Reaching the good part of that initial diagonal rail seems height/reach dependent. If you have to make an intermediate move or two up the steep face with no feet (without using the back wall), definitely harder and headier. Stemming off the back wall would make it much easier, of course.

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Routes in Arid Piles - Southwest Face