More Pass History: The Green Lantern

The Green Lantern may be another problem vying for best problem at Ute status.  An immaculate piece of rock off by itself with only one line up it.  A clear sit start with an straight forward but extremely difficult crux move.  It was first done by Dave Marquess back in the spring of 2005, using some very heinous intermediate crimps.  It had recently snowed heavily and everything was out of commission but this bloc and Dave and Byron quickly set to work.  Within 15 minutes of Dave's send, Byron Johnson nabbed the second ascent via a sick lunge to a decent slot.  This has now become the standard beta to try but three years later no one has been able to link this climb together again.  However, I have seen Austin Geiman come agonizingly close on a number of attempts.  As for me, I get utterly destroyed.  I can barely do the "easy" opening moves let alone the powerful crux.  Maybe it is a mental block or maybe I'm just not powerful enough, but this problem has now worked its way back onto the top of my list of projects so hopefully there will be some more news about this rig soon.  Here are two photos of Bryan Boyko, who did not actually stick the move in the photo due to the difficultly of actually getting ones fingers back into the slot, and Carlo Traversi working the Green Lantern.