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"Another line draws us in. It looks like a lively flame licking a huge boulder. The moves: a flamboyant series of long cross-throughs and daring stabs on an overhanging wall. We call it Orange Flambé (V7/8). The line had been scoped years earlier by the Horse Flats pioneer Neal Kaptain." -Wills Young, “Escape to L.A.” Climbing, no. 174, 15 Mar. 1998, pp. 84–93

Sources: Fry '90, Young '98, mOthEr rOck Mail '98, March '99, 5 Star '05, Corso '15, LACB '17

The 1990 Craig Fry book has this problem, but the 1995 book does not! Wills Young describes getting the first ascent of the problem with James March in a Climbing magazine article published 15 March 1998. The 1990 Craig Fry book is probbaly a mistake.

FA: Wills Young

James March in mOthEr rOck Mail (March 1998):

The “Blank Generation,” which has yet to see a third ascent and has been repelling some strong climbers, is now checking in at a solid V10; the sit start may indeed be V11. I recently got the second ascent of Wills’ “Orange Flambe,” V7, in end-of-the-day epic style, throwing for a sucker sloper and dangling off a left hand crimp…I refused to let go and went for it way off the deck. Well worth it.