What MV route is this?

Placing a cam? Slotting a nut? Slinging a tree?
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Steve
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What MV route is this?

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What Muir Valley route is this?

http://forums.climbing.com/photopost/sh ... /1/cat/510
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J-Rock
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Looks like "First Fall". Karla did the FA on that one. The sport route next to it is "Blue Collar".
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Post by ynot »

The Red has is it all?
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Jrodan
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Post by Jrodan »

It's a few hundred feet right of the sanctuary. It might be "crackin' up," although I'm really not sure.
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Post by ynot »

First Fall is really good. It doesnt let up on you much.
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She easily onsighted it and tried to continue to the actual clifftop, but ended up slipping off of some moss at the very top resulting in a huge whipper and a broken ankle. I suggested that we leave the gear and return for it the next weekend. She refused and made me climb it to retrieve our gear and bolt some anchors. I grabbed the Annihilator and climbed up while she propped up her lopsided foot and belayed me. When I reached the ledge I noticed that the #2 Metolius TCU that caught her fall was in a rotten horizontal with only one cam lobe in the rock and the biner was open. I was afraid to weight the piece so I quickly placed two bolts while balancing on the ledge and then rappeled down. The hike out was the grueling part...
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Post by pawilkes »

not to be an asshole but on "climbing.com" they say its a "classic crack". how can something less than a couple years old be "classic"?
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Post by squeezindlemmon »

I think the caption said "Muir Valley Classic Crack"... since First Fall is ~ the 5th route that went up in MV, in MV terms, that'd make it a classic, right? :?
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Damn squeeze! You're one hard ass little lady. I dig that about you. :D
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diggum digs me! :wink: :mrgreen:
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