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BETA PHOTO: Sunshine Wall!
Description
Sunshine Wall is a fine wall located to the W of Cynical Pinnacle with some fine, moderate-length routes in the moderate range. In particular, Turkey Foot Crack, Standard Route, and Equinox are likely to delight.
Getting There
Park at the large parking area and follow the old logging road past a switchback and across the mostly dry streambed, then start looking for a cairn and a faint trail on your right. This will lead straight uphill to the left side of the Sunshine Wall.
This route is located on the Sunshine Wall's South Face. This wall is the formation to the left of Cynical Pinnacle when looking from the road. This route is about halfway in the middle of the wide wall. There are three cracks that lead into one, easiest from right to left. If you do the middle, or left route, some RPs will be nice to have. A little bit after the cracks converge, a fist size crack goes up another pitch, or the first tw...[more]
Ouch! went to do standard route today with Aaron Lucas. At the top of the Third pitch, when we were supposed to go right to some bolted 5.10, we got suckered into a line of 6 bolts up some continuous, hard slab left of the belay. It's not in either book I looked at, or on the site. Anyone know what it is?
The route is called Sunkist and the 3rd pitch you climbed is 12a. (edit: we finally redpointed this pitch on 2/10/08 and I guess I sandbagged you a bit. The pitch is more realistically 12 b/c.
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