This is the crack/flake system on the left margin of slabby face with Arcy Farcy and Winter Solstice. Enjoyable crack climbing leads to a bolted anchor on a ledge. Rap off (100') or downclimb the gully to the right (5.5).
The Hernia is a good fun climb with several hard sections. Getting off the ground gets you thinking, getting into the left facing flake above is awkward and insecure, and the upper face past the bolt is a bit intimidating. Rap anchors send you directly over Winter Solstice (11c) for a good look at nothing and works as a great top rope for this smear fest of a route.
This is a fantastic climb for the grade. The crux (shifting from the right-arching crack to a left-facing lieback on rounded holds) was heady and sustained but rewards the leader with a bomber rest afterwards. I mostly led this with aliens - very few cam placements over .75 Camelot.
Buttress Of Cracks
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