This is an exciting and airy pitch that climbs the golden hanging slab in the center of the cliff.

25' above the starting ledge is a small pine growing out of the cliff. Directly above this pine is a big right-facing corner capped by a big roof. Wake The Flake starts up this corner, via a surly little fingercrack through a bulge / roof, then traverses out right onto the slab to gain the hanging flake out there. Follow the flake until you're higher than the big roof in the corner out left. Step left into the corner above the roof and topout as seems logical.

Wake The Flake

Wear The Flare

Doin' The Band

We Got Fun and Games

Welcome To The Jungle

The meat of this pitch is the obvious v-groove corner / flare 40 or 50 feet up the cliff. This flare is guarded by some difficult and crowded maneuvers, in order to surmount the roof, at its base. Easier climbing leads up the flare and out the wild little roof at its top.

This is a great looking line, that climbs really well too, but is somewhat marred by some strange vegetation inside the crack. Despite being 6 inches wide, the crack bottoms out within 12 inches of the lip, and is graced with a strip of wierd black shrubbery. Fortunately it effects the climbing very little, and an enjoyable pitch of real offwidth climbing awaits all suitors. I think I used six stacks in a row!

Excellent 2 pitch route with a moderate first pitch on bullet stone, an exciting crux pitch 2, and quality crack-climbing throughout.

From the start (in the splitter through a bulge just right of the horizontal pine tree) head straight up the beautiful slab linking left-facing, corner features and cracks before angling left, before the biggish roof. This leftward traverse gains access to the BIG, left-facing, corner system that leads to the BIG roof in the center of the cliff. Belay on the slab left of the big corner.

From the belay, climb the big, left-facing, corner through the big roof (easier than it looks). Above this roof is a slab. Angle left across the slab to a pair of twin cracks that split the vertical wall above. Unfortunately they don't extend all the way down to the slab. This gap presented the mental crux for me. Get some RPs in the bottom of the cracks, and climb up into the one on the right. After the crack slabs out and turns into a right facing corner, follow it up to a bulging flake crack on the left wall of the dihedral. Crank out this bulge to another slab with a crack in it. Follow the crack to an easy leaning corner and the topout.

Descend by scrambling off to the East.

This is pretty much the central line up the longest and steepest section on the cliff. Two pitches of great crack climbing. Pitch 2 was a little dirty, but not bad at all.

This is the only route we did on the crag that I felt like might have been climbed before. Maybe just because it's such a proud, obvious line. I'd love to hear about any previous activity / ascents up here.

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