Mike near the end of the offwidth section at the b...
Description
Begin just right of "Little Big Horn" in a sandy wash at the base of the crag. Bouldery moves gain a left facing dihedral with an offwidth crescent shaped crack on the right. Awkward moves (5.9) lead to a small roof with a solid thin horn above the roof. Pull the roof (5.9) and continue in the left slanting finger / hand crack surrounded by vibrant orange rock. The crack becomes low angle near the top and ends on a ledge. Veer right for 15' to a larger ledge then back left to the rappel anchors. A little dirty down low but another great warmup.
Protection
A variety of cams from 0.5" to 5" and stoppers protect this relatively lengthy crack / face climb. The route ends on a ledge just right of the "Little Big Horn" rappel anchors. Two rope rappel to the ground.
Out of curiousity, Todd mentions that there is already a route named Flaming Arrow. Who did the FA and what are the ethics involved in having a second go at an already existing name for a route? Also, Todd, how about some more info on the first Flaming Arrow?................(I know.......look it up in a guide. I'll be over to check your extensive collection...)
To whom it may concern...I did not make this post about the Flamming Arrow... someone posted under my name...(Sounds like what they do one my website!)....I don't kow anything about 2 climbs with this same name....(And my route names are usually much more "colorful".)
I didn't realize that "The Flaming Arrow" was an existing route on The Rockwork Rocks formation near Barker Dam when I used the same name for a FA at Indian Country last year. Randy, please change the name to "The Flamboyant Arrow" for your next guidebook edition. Mike, please do the same on the website.
I am hopeful that the local J-Tree climbing community will overlook my egregious error and that Judge Locker will no longer have to spend precious seconds pondering the ethics of using a name for a FA that has already been used for a different route in the same climbing area.
There is no problem with having mor than one route with the same name. I think there are several examples of this already having occured at Josh. One example is "Oh God!" which is either a 10c on Indian Head or a 5.2 in the Pope's Hat area. [And there is "Oh God, Its My Boss" as well...]
Personally, lets have more routes with exact same name. It makes things more interesting.
Indian Country
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