Code of the Sea 

According to Sven "Start from block 10-12 ft up and left of crack on Pooper. Climb overhanging face to top, staying left of Pooper.

The Pooper variation is listed at 5.12c/d and goes..."At triangular niche, continue straight up near center of face."

WOW Dave 5.12a is a sandbag, even for D.L. would say 5.12c, vary thin and technical

I'm going to have to agree with Alex on this being quite a bit harder than 5.12a, at least the way I did it (or did I do "Pooper varition, 5.12c/d"). I started as for Pooper and went straight up instead of doing the thin traverse right you do on Pooper. I went pretty much straight up from there and finished about 4-5 feet left of the chimney on the ledge level with and only a few inches right of the mini-roof under the summit block. I felt like the crux was the absolute last move to the top.

Also, does anyone know if this has ever been led?

This thing is stellar except for the most definitely reachy final move. I can do it statically at 6ft tall.

Awesome route! The top crux is really good, and I think it helps to have small fingers.
Rhoads also pulled off an exciting lead!

Yes, I led it and it protects well. A purple C3 is crucial to protect the mantle in the middle of the route.

At the start place gear as far right as possible in the horizontal, if you blow the first crux you will take a huge swing but will live. I reached way left at the start to a nice side pull but figured out later it's less reachy to go straight up off good underclings. I whipped previously from the mantle move and the last move, the falls are pretty big but safe with double ropes.

A few pictures of Rhoads are up on my blog;
climbs2high.blogspot.com/2011/10/dl-pics.html
I had to leave before the send, so only pictures up to his fall.
click on the photo for larger detail.

Wow Jon, those are nice photos too! I love the facial expressions, and the Fall light.

Nick, you came pretty close to needing that helmet!