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Peak Mountain 3

Peaches

FA Joe Herbst and friends
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Description

Take the Petroglyph Wall Trail to the interpretive sign at the base of the crag.   About 30 feet left of the  sign is a large right-facing dihedral that also leans to the right.  This climb is well protected and has good rock quality.Starting just right of the dihedral, work your way up and right to a vertical crack.  Follow the vertical crack until it joins the dihedral. Continue right and up through the chimney at 5.7.  Or escape right earlier for the 5.5 variation.  Or you can take on the 5.9 variation by going left and up an overhanging crack.  Descent options:Rappel 40 meters from a tree with slings at the back of a large ledge.Or traverse right about 100 meters with some exposed second and third class and then descend a gully  down to the wash.  Details:  climb over and right of a large boulder near the rap tree; traverse right over the top of a wide chimney with a big chock stone; continue right, scrambling up a little every now and then; make a few second or third class traversing moves around a bulge over about 120 feet of vertical face (!); continue right to reach a gully and traverse to the far side; descend paths in the gully to the flat wash below. 10 minutes.On our second time on the route, we had one 60 meter rope  One of us did a single strand rap to the base (descent #1).  The other did the "walk off" (descent #2).  We also then watched another party of two do a two-stranded rap with one 70m rope, needing to then down climb the last 5 or 10 meters of the route.

Protection

Standard rack