Gypsy's Curse, 5.10+

2nd Pitch- 50m- 5.10+/ This is one of the better pitches at the grade in Zion. Start up the corner with .5” to .75” gear. Easier climbing gets you to a smaller ledge about 30’ up below a sustained long crack. Due to that ledge, I took four 1” pieces on my 2nd trip and happily sowed the section above the ledge up. This 1” section is obviously mostly hands and little in the way of feet. I placed 2-3; 2” pieces during the section that overcomes a slick bulge. As much as I try to avoid lie backing, you probably need to lie back a short section below the bulge. There is a decent rest stance off into the off-width pod on the separate wall to the right. Continue through the bulge into a long 3” section (I placed four 3” pieces). Then grovel your way up a short 4” section (2 pieces) to a small fixed belay stance. Gypsy's Curse, 5.10+, 4 Pitches, Tunnel Wall, Zion National Park, May 2010