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Friday, November 11, 2016

Revenue Village: Proud Face is all done! Roadside Ramp has one route.

I was able to get three more days in the village this season. I have been working on Proud Face for the latter half of the season and now with 9 routes, I can call her done. None have been climbed on lead yet so I will refrain from grades for now. Before the season even began, I set a goal to start and finish Manfred's Rock, start and finish Proud Face and finish a route on the Roadside Ramps; essentially develop everything encountered while walking in from the North entrance. It didnt look like I was going to make it but this Indian summer (can I still say that?) held out long enough for me. A lot of this post is purely record keeping for me, sorry if its dry and to the point.
Tools
Smoke on the water

An inversion kept the fog on the lake. Purdy neat
THE Proud Face. Proud Face Route starts in crack, traverses left in to middle of face to 6 bolts. Sam's Variation goes up the crack, stays in the crack then takes arete to top (TR). Proud Face Crack starts in either crack on the bottom then stays in obvious wide crack to top (not visible). 
This chunk is the right side of Proud Face Rock. 'Empty Rangers' starts in the lower left crack (right side crack variation to Proud Face Crack) then traverses left to right at the dike (3 bolts) then the arete and cracks to the anchor.
The right side start to PF Crack or the standard start to Empty Rangers. Upper PF Crack can be seen.
This slab is just left of Proud Face. There is a subtle slab right in front of the main chunk. 'Incessant' goes up it with one bolt (crack to the right is useless for pro) then bomber cracks through right side of roof and to the top. 'Wake up Call' starts behind leaning slab with wide gear to 3 bolts up to left side of roof and gear to the top. 'Fugitess Crack' is just around the corner of this slab facing left.
Two slabs pictured here. The right one has a route 'Its pronounced Eye-gore' with cracks to one bolt and gear up to anchors. The left slab with the large boulder on top starts with one of the best lieback cracks in the Village then you stem that gap you can see and there are 2 bolts to get you to the anchors 'Weed Stems'.
The Roadside Ramps as seen from the road. Too bad you cant walk straight to them!
'Mushrooms are Good for Sundays' 14 bolts to one small cam to anchors.

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