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This route is located in the Lower Gorge Region at Pebble Beach

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Brontosaurus 5.10b (Trad) ****

First Ascent: John Bronaugh, Charles Tabor in 1988
Length: 60ft
Gear: (report bad anchors)

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This crack ascends the obvious, overhanging dihedral just to the left of Welcome to Ole Kentuck.
Moves: Hands
Descent: Cold shuts
Stays Dry: Does not stay dry
Owner: NFS
Steepness:
classic (2) pumpy (2) hands (2) fun (2) exposed (1) stout (1)
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4.42 stars (57 votes)
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5.10b (33 votes)

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Submitted by: taurusclimber
Date: Jul 3rd, 2018

Submitted by: ray
Date: Dec 18th, 2005

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Yasmeen said on November 2nd, 2003
This is my favorite trad route I've been on so far. Not one face hold the whole way! :)
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gneiss said on October 16th, 2004
are you sure? the pic shows tons of face holds
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Anonymous said on September 20th, 2006
Even if there were face holds I don't know why you would even want to use them with such a slammin' hand crack. Best jams I've ever experienced. Ever. Too bad it's not longer. SUCH good climbing!
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Anonymous said on September 22nd, 2006
1st trad lead
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Gaar said on December 15th, 2006
I found pleanty of foot holds...but the crack was soooooo sweeeet for your hands. Good trad climb for the intro 10 trad leader.
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Myke Dronez said on September 7th, 2008
Have a laugh watching your liebackin' buddies pump and flail- jammin' is the business and business is good.
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Brentucky said on September 8th, 2008
watch who you're callin buddy, buddy! buddies don't let buddies do crack! also, i was just warmin up for the crux (and we saw how that went) :-)
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danf26 said on March 22nd, 2009
man of man do i need to practice my hand and foot jams. that thing ate me up and spit me back out bloody and bruised... then i saw someone lead it incredibly gracefully and i saw how easy it could have been. some climbers just know their crack
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jrathfon said on November 16th, 2009
awesome hands, green camalot thin hands crux.
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ahab said on March 16th, 2010
one of my favorites. up there with doppler effect.
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ynp1 said on October 19th, 2010
Somebody knocked out a lot of the blocks stuck in the ramp to get to the base of the crack. It is a lot looser and more dangerous now, then it was before. Still easy, but should take some time to look at what you step on and pull on.
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swj said on November 21st, 2010
awesome hand jams, definitely a fun route.
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campby said on October 4th, 2016
As of late Sept., there is a fairly sizeable fallen limb/tree that is hanging at the top of the cliff. Where it hangs is directly over the base of Brontosaurus. I suspect that it will eventually let loose. Just a warning.
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MikeWilkinson said on April 28th, 2019
Stellar route. No tree hanging from above as previous posted mentioned.