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Peak Mountain 3

The Flying None

FA Brad Young, Jennifer Wang, Dave Harden, Bob Walton, Bart O’Brien; May 16, 2021
UPDATED BY tobi 

Description

Route description from the Mud 'N Crud Web Forum:

Pitch One, 5.6 (115 feet): The groove/crack is 65 feet high; climb in it, to its right, then in it again. Protection consists of three bolts, slung knobs and gear (1½ to four inches and, optionally, one each one and five inch). Continue up a blunt buttress past four more bolts to a three-bolt anchor (seven lead bolts total).

Pitch Two, 5.7 (85 feet): Climb the face above past 11 bolts. Finish at a three-bolt anchor below a headwall.

Pitch Three, 5.7 (95 feet): Two bolts protect the headwall. Two more bolts protect low angle climbing to a fifth bolt on a short section of steeper rock (the fifth bolt is 12 feet right from the top anchor of Costanoan’s third pitch). A sixth bolt protects the rest of the steep section. One more bolt and slung knobs protect easier climbing to a stance and a two-bolt anchor.

Pitch Four, 5.3 (55 feet): Climb a knobby face up and slightly right. Finish at a two-bolt anchor on top of The Citadel (this anchor is 10 feet west of Costanoan’s fourth pitch top anchor; yes it's only ten feet west but it is needed so that parties can rappel this route after doing it instead of rappelling Costanoan - that route already has massive and often simultaneous up and down traffic). Protection for this pitch consists of two bolts and slung knobs.

Location

This route begins in a deep groove/crack 25 feet right from the start of Costanoan.


Routes in The Citadel