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glockaroo
May 12, 2005, 7:45 PM
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Over the years I've probably done this route 10 times, but it has been 3-4 years since the last time, and I want to get in a little aid before the sweltering weather hits NC.
Does anybody have current beta on the gear for P2 and P3? I remember using a fair number of thinner pins on P2 but I suspect those slots have been opened up/beat out by now. Is the thin finish of P2 totally chewed up now? Is P3 still fixed w/ a bunch of old heads? Has anyone replaced that old buttonhead bolt (about the 3rd or 4th one up) early on P3 where the rock was fractured around it? Thanks!
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tradjunkie
May 15, 2005, 11:45 PM
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i was up there in september and remember pitch 3 being totally fixed, but i'd bring some rivet hangers, maybe a head or two and a couple of hooks.
the 2nd pitch is getting a little beat out, its hard to get things to set in the crack because it's so shallow. there were two fixed heads and a rurp or two up high and i think we even stacked a couple of pins too. knife blades, lost arrow, cam hooks, a rurp and some aliens should do it.
brain dead is totally worth doing if you have the time. we did it in two pitches with a 60m rope cause there's only one bolt at the top where the topo said you should belay. just run it out to the trees.
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