didn't suck.
coming in
we started from mm13 and bore more or less east, picking our way thru and around canyon and dome systems until we made our way to a bench just above lower woodruff just up from trachyte.
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here had to handline down. me last off a hook. there were plenty of placements for it, but none w/ much ( if any ) margin for error. so i just made sure i weighted it as little as possible. so long as it didn't get shock loaded it was fine. then we found a camp spot and relaxed.
70's Thug
we found a way up from camp and went to check out the slot i was curious about. we opted not to bring tech gear in though to save weight and make for a more relaxed and wandery type of trip. kinda wish we had... this was a walk/scramble/dc thru lil' fella w/ some really nice spots. but short. the top 1/2 we went thru together. the bottom 1/2 i went a portion of the ways down then back up as i didn't want to get stuck climbing back out of too many slippery potholes, or get trapped in one w/ no way to regress. it was like the top but 2x deeper, a little skinnier, and seemed to be just as walk/scramble/dc as the top. until the final drop... looks to be about 100', + or - ? and unsure of anchor material, but throughout the top 1/2 deadman material at least was readily available.
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Woodruff out
very nice. had a few route finding issues w/ finding bypasses around falls, but not bad. it really slowed us down tho' so the last 1.5 hours was by headlamp. so i don't actually know what the upper porrtion was like, but in moonlight it looked awesome !
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