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Tribute Wall Lower 8-Oct-2013 At 1:30:12 PM silver_13

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On 8/10/2013 nmonteith wrote:
>Is there anything in the guide that confused you? It seems reasonably
>clear on the topo and descriptions. The guide does show incorrect number
>of lower-off anchors though. Jet, By Jovi and Midnight Soiled all share
>the same anchor.

Now I understand what happened. We were moving left to right, routes 6-5 were taken, then we saw 2 lines of bolts going straight up, the left of them did not have a top anchor. So we thought it can't be Midnight Soiled. The next one to the right was clearly going straight up not veering so it could not have been Midnight Soiled either. So we weren't sure and asked a few passers by, none of them could identify the route, but somebody suggested it's a 19 and they climbed it before. So gave it a try climbing pretty much straight up running out of strength and resting on bolts 2,3,4. It did indeed went to the right at the top. Obviously, this was not a guidebook fault, we should have had a better look at the wall... but it was fun climbing a 19 and discovering that Tribute Wall grading must have been different from what I'm used to.

>I think if you fell off you would fall down the 'pit' anyway. No ground
>to hit!

Ok