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Wind Shear

Name: Wind Shear
Rating: 3.8

5.12b YDS 7b French 26 Ewbanks VIII+ UIAA 26 ZA E5 6b British

Routes in Incredible Hulk

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	Airstream T 5.13a/b 8a 29 IX+ 29 E7 6c
	Astrohulk T 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
	Beeline T 5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Blowhard T 5.12+ 7c 28 IX 27 E6 6b
	Escape from Poland T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
	Eye of the Storm T 5.12 7b+ 27 VIII+ 26 E6 6b
	Green Thunder T 5.13b 8a 29 IX+ 30 E7 6c
	Lenticular Gyrations T 5.12 7b+ 27 VIII+ 26 E6 6b
	Lost in the Sun T 5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a
	Nalazak T 5.13 8a 29 X- 30 E7 6c
	Polish Route, The T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
	Positive Vibrations T 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Red Dihedral (aka "Yggdrasil") T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Solar Flare T 5.12+ 7c 28 IX 27 E6 6b
	Sun Burn (aka Solar Burn) T 5.12 7b+ 27 VIII+ 26 E6 6b
	Sunspot Dihedral T 5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
	Tradewinds T 5.11d 7a 24 VIII 25 E5 6a
	Up in Smoke T 5.13a 7c+ 29 IX+ 29 E6 6c
	Venturi Effect, The T 5.12c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b
	Wind Shear T 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b

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Type:	Trad, Alpine, 1200 ft (364 m), 13 pitches, Grade IV
FA:	Peter Croft, Dave Nettle, Andy Puhvel, Sept 2, 2014
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Shared By:	Jeff Gicklhorn on Sep 16, 2014 · Updates
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Description

Stellar new line established September 2014 that climbs between Positive Vibrations and Airstream. Many pitches are short to minimize rope drag. 4 stars all the way!

P1: 12a Power laybacking to finger crack

P2: 11c Slab - easy to link into 3

P3: 11b tech - mostly bolts

P4: 11c awesome handcrack to reachy jug and then an awesome flake

P5: 12a slab - bring your best slab technique for this awesome pitch that ends in "11a fingers." That finger crack felt quite hard for that grade!

P6: 11b slippery stemming to easier varied climbing

P7: 12a traverse - bulletproof slippery rock to a crimpy face traverse

P8: 12a "The Hanging Crack" - One of my favorite pitches. Awesome finger/hand crack to a roof crux with limited feet.

P9: 12b - Improbable looking traverse that climbs very straight forward once you initiate the moves

P10: 12a - Traverse under the roof and over the arete. Keep traverse to you hit the amazing handcrack. Climb up through the crux of Positive Vibes and belay at bolts

P11: Traverse up and left to the other side of the arete

P12: 12a stemming. Really fun stemming. Remember to head right after the high third bolt and then back left. I went up and left and while do-able, you must pull moves on less than desirable rock.

P13-14: You can either head straight up and climb the bolted 11c/11d arete in one or two pitches or escape onto PV.

P14: If you escaped onto PV - climb the last splitter 5.8 handcrack