I've always looked at this slab when warming up on "Porkfist" and was delighted when I saw the bolts on it a couple of years back. I jumped on it after a quick warmup, without knowing it's name or rating. The photo calls this "Porkus Procurement," but that route actually starts just a foot or two from Porkfist. The dotted line on the photo is the slab I'm talking about, roughly 20' left of Porkfist-Porkus-Lumina. Start up a very sandy, vegetated low-angle slab to gain the first bolt. (If not for this run out and dirty start, I would have given this a 3 star rating.) Follow a line of bolts up an increasingly steep slab using the arete on the right at the start but moving back towards the center for the crux bulging headwall on slightly "Prickly" holds. I felt the bolt placements on this route were the most thoughtful of any Shelf route I've been on. Hats off to the bolter whoever it was (I was told maybe Van Horn?)!
If this is the climb that is two routes to the left of Enchanted Porkfist I am not sure of the name, but it has been called 11d by several people. I have climbed and the rating felt pretty close.
I did it on one of those "good days" when everything was feeling pretty good and I thought it in the 11c range give or take so I'd buy 11d. Yes, it is two routes left of Porfist, one route left of Porkus.
By Rick Thompson From: Mount Nebbiolo, CO Mar 25, 2002
Nice climbing, on classic Dark Side rock, most climbers give it two thumbs up!
If the new Fred Knapp guide is correct, Stink Finger is two routes to the left of Porkus Procurement, not one. Climbing black to blonde rock. A partner and I climbed both Stink Finger and Punjabi on a recent trip to Dark Side (Punjabi is one route to the left of Porkus Pro) and found Punjabi to be much closer to 11d than 11b as the guidebook suggests. Both routes were very good climbing.
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