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Peak Mountain 3

Lonely Challenge

FA Art Gran and Joe Kelsey, 1965
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Description

Head up the open book on the left to start, then up the face on the right to a small birch tree. Step right and go up to the obvious left-facing corner. Follow that up to a roof on the right. Move right, and head for the ledge with the pine tree that used to be the rap station. It is still there but is now perpendicular to the cliff. Anchor here, but transfer another 20-30 feet right to another rap station to descend (2013).

It looks kind of bushy from the ground so is easily passed over, but turns out to be a very nice pitch for the grade.

P1 is 80 ft. but P2 and P3 add another 80 and 100 ft.

Location

After you've passed Birdland and Grease Gun Groove, keep walking until the trail heads just slightly uphill, then starts to head back down. The apex of the trail corresponds to an open book in the rock, and a very slabby left-leaning undercut crack (lower left of picture) formed by a block. The face left of and above this crack is Lonely Challenge - aim for the set of corners above leading to the tree on the ledge.

Protection

Standard rack. Rap off the anchors on the tree about 25 feet to the right. above "Fat and Weak"/ Grey Gully.