The name says it all. Dark rock, in the shade, and a good choice for pulling limestone pockets on a hot day.
Getting There
From the parking at the Bank, hike down toward the Bank. Shortly after the road drops down a bit you can pick up a trail to the right. This trail will take you to the 2150 wall or, by staying right, to the Dark Side. There is a leaning block in the middle of The Dark Side cliff band, the Question Of Balance Pinnacle, and this can serve as a good reference point. As previously, numbering derives from Mark Van Horn's guide making "Slide It In" #1. Some gaps have been incorporated to allow for projects known to underway or likely to go in.
Suspender man is easy to find. Hike east along the base of the cliff until you come to a huge slab of limestone leaning up against the main wall. Suspender man tackles the back side of this slab. It's a fun (though short) route on cool overhanging pockets - and it's unbelieveably slippery. Very different from most of the stuff at the Dark side, and definitely worth doing....[more]
I climbed at the Dark Side last weekend with some friends and we did a route to the left of Porkus Procurement. In the guidebook (and the beta picture here) the route directly left is called Punjabi. However, the route we climbed wasn't as far to the left as the picture would seem to indicate.
To the left of Porkus is a grungy dihedral. This route is on the clean face directly left of that dihedral. The start of the route is no more then ten feet left of the start of Porkus. The first fifteen feet is grungy but cleans up quickly and gradually steepens to a very steep headwall at the top. The crux is at the last bolt. We thought the rating was somewhere in the 11 to 11+ range. Does this sound like Punjabi? Or is this a new route?
Edit: I took a closer look at the route database and the route in question is called Stink Finger, 11d.
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