Feast of Fools 5.10b : freak-out on p2 (4K POV first-person beta) : Trad Climbing The Gunks, NY

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Pitch 2 starts at: 9:07
Pitch 3 starts at: 21:52

It's been a hot minute but not long enough for your intrepid hero to be this scared. Feast of Fools 5.10b at the Arrow Wall of the Gunks, NY fires off with a very sporty first pitch up a dihedral into a thin traverse one way before hero-jugs traversing back to a no-hands rest. From there is a small boulder problem into either a dihedral finish on jugs or a face-climb on some smaller holds. Both felt on the grade but climb wildly different. Pitch two, at the loaded grade of 5.9++, hit yours truly quite hard in its cryptic, sustained sequence. The beginning face does not protect well but once you're at the undercling corner crux you can get a few solid pieces in including clipping a fixed wire left by some unlucky but kind samaritan. What came next was a harrowing experience I'm mildly embarassed to have caught on film. Pitch three seemed to be never climbed with the amount of lichen on it but cruising up the detached blocks into a memorable roof sequence was still very worth doing. It's time to bring this puppy back, hope you enjoy!

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