Chossy wall but direct sunlight and this sweet crack climb.....starts up a very prominent hand crack just right of a large overhang with a nice finger crack.....the hand crack is easy and low angle for 30 feet to a nice ledge, continue straight up vertical rotten crack with a pin about 10 feet up protecting the rotten section crux 5.9 and continues up nice hand jam/lieback system that gradually widens to offwidth but gets less steep. Anchor is one bolt and a fixed tricam on a slabby ledge.
Pitch 2 (I didn't do) goes left on ledge to nice crack/flake system and some roofs to large walk-off ledge.
Note that the area around the base of this climb and adjacent climbs has a fair amount of poison ivy. If you have my guidebook, you might make a note of the PI hazard in this area of December Wall for future reference. There's also a bush of ivy on this route at the base of the upper corner (you can see it in the photo) -- avoid it if you are allergic to ivy.
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