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This was also an excellent route, but did require a little more use of my bad knee than the previous climb. Since we were short on time (Nathaniel was insistent that we get back to Moab in time to catch the UCLA basketball playoff game) we tried to link pitches as much as possible and use my 70m ropes to their full advantage. This worked reasonably well. We did the climb in just two long pitches, with Brian leading the first and Nathaniel leading the second. After the climb, we had to wait our turn to rappel, but we were still able to hurry back to the car (me running down the talus cone with my day-old sprained knee) and get back to Moab in time to see most of the game. We only missed part of the first half.