Solar slab descent

Does anyone now if you can get down solar slab to the terrace with a 70 meter rope?
I want to do the route in a few days and I dont really want to be boulder hopeing by headlamp or drag an extra rope.

You can do the Black Orpheus single rope descent with one 60m rope. But, it's a little hard to find and involves a good deal of hiking, too. Also known as Painted Bowl descent.

Ive descended both climbers left and right descents without using a rope. So it can be done. I've never taken two ropes.

All things considered, I'd bring the extra rope or climb on doubles if I were you. Rapping with one rope will take a lot longer (assuming it's even possible); you'll roughly double your chances for a rope snag; and you'll probably have more trouble dealing with the snag when (not if) it happens.

JL

Just did the descent to climber's right down the gully a few weeks ago with a 70 meter rope. It took a while and we got mixed up. The descent gully is not as straight forward as it appears and the cairs can mislead you.

If I had to do it again I would bring an extra rope and rap the route. Would have been a lot faster. You might be able to rap the route with a 70, there were a lot of anchors but I think there was one spot that would have been too long (1st pitch of upper).

Thanks for the replys. Looks like I'll bring an extra rope for the descent to the terrace and do single raps down the gully and keep my fingers crossed when I pull the ropes.
Reed

We did the painted bowl descent just for the scenery and for the simplicity of one rope. The second rappel anchor for the single rope descent was one of the more interesting anchors ive seen in awhile! (Solid and well equalized though) The descent was pretty straight forward except near the end we did a easy but scary traverse above a cliff drop into the creek bed. We turned or headlamps on about 15 minutes from our packs on the trail below Solar Slab gully and then walked out to hwy 159 to meet our friends. All in all a great route with lots of solid 5.6 We did the whole climb includeing the gully in 9 1/4 pitches with a 70 meter rope.