Andy Moles - 94994

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Date : 15/11/2017

Grade : E6

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Style : Alternate Lead

Type : Multi Pitch

Weather : N/A

Wind : N/A

Crag : Zion Canyon

Climb : Moonlight Buttress

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Dream route! Rapped the day before to inspect and deposit bivi gear. Then spent two nights on the wall trying to free it. Flashed most of it on lead or second. The boulder problem off the Rocker Block took two attempts and the little flare in the middle of the enduro corner nearly ended me, but all went clean in the end apart from the moves out of the big flare on pitch 7 where I fell off and then needed a rest. So close. An amazing experience. Regarding the grade, it gets .12d in current guides but I would say none of the individual pitches are harder than .12b, the thinner cracks have opened up a lot over the years.

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