Karate Crack

 

 

5.10a ****

 

 

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Easily one of the best climbs I have ever had the opportunity to do.  Joel led this one blistering hot summer afternoon.  We forgot to put a directional at the bottom so when Joel took a nice fall at 20 feet up, the bottom two cams popped out of the crack, leaving him suspended by a single cam.  After changing his drawers, he sent this climb in a seige not seen in tenacity since the famous Second Seige of Malta in the sixteenth century.  I cleaned and acknowledged the can of woop-ass Joel just let out on the rock. 

Hail, Joel.