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Kangaroo Temple, Northwest Face, 5.7+, 5 pitches

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More Temple choss here, yet still better than sitting in, say, the cubicle at Microsoft. The first pitch sets you up with tremendous rope drag before a substantial runout on a dicey, slippery, steep and often wet face, and the last pitch surmounts a precarious stack of decomposed death blocks in a steep corner. In between these two moments of dread are 3-400' of decent climbing...

       
  Here's Sonja following the harrowing first pitch of Kangaroo Temple's NW Face. It's definitely not a particular safe stretch of climbing, with those thin, balancy moves up that smooth, polished water runnel 30' from the nearest piece of pro. It's 'only' 5.7+, but watch out. The rest of the climb is safer, but not very aesthetic nor fun. So was it worth it? Probably not. Don't often say that about a day of climbing, but here it seem to fit.