East Face/Dinosaur Rock 

Used a 50 meter rope and belayed at the top of the ramp system. This belay provided good pro and space for the second. The 2nd pitch started straight up a pocketed face for twenty feet and offers a few places for pro before traversing to the left across a sloping ledge. (5.3) You can place a .5 Camalot before the traverse and a #1 Camalot after in order to protect the second. From here you should see the large belay ledgeGuy refers to with the slot directly above, head for that and haul up the second.I have to agree that the slot looks harder than the 5.4 rating and holds potential for a nasty fall onto the sloping ledge. The protection is none to nill, small nut maybe, for the move up into the slot a 5 ft vertical section. My partner being a new climber, I decided to forfeit this option and instead headed right across the ledge and than up through the dark red bands to a rib. The climbing was fun and the rock solid and offered up a safer alternative to the slot.From here continue straight up to a point just below the summit belaying on a solid flake. I kept my second on belay and had them continue on over the summit and down to the rap ledge on the west side. The down climb is exposed and leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling. I suppose if one is adverse to the warm fuzzy feeling could sling something to help protect the downclimb. Enjoyable climb providing spectacular views and easy approach.

This is great trad and solo route. It's short and provides plenty of good resting spots. The gear might be somewhat limited but I think the climbing is generally easier than the 3rd. Try to protect the crux as much as you can because there is tumble potential here. I think the only part of this route that absolutely sucks is the descent. Either lower your second across the sharp summit ridge or just unrope and freesolo down some featureless 5.0 I personally climbed the descent route first and then came back to free-solo the standard route.

Did this route today in 73F, sunny skies and just a light breeze; it felt easier than 5.4. In trying to correlate the route to Rossiter, I seem to find that he calls it "Rug Munchers." We climbed the rib a few feet left (south) of the slab leaning against the east face, as it looked more interesting than the red slab farther south. The first good belay ledge seemed more like 120 ft up, and we couldn't decide whether the crux above it was the rather unprotectable slab above or the steeper section just below what we think was Guy's crux slot. Either way seemed about the same, and straightforward. Used some tricams, the smaller Aliens, and some really big Camalots; hexes are good at the belay stances, and a few extra shoulder-length slings to keep the line straight. The summit is 30 meters above the first belay, so we found the climb from bottom to top to be no more than about 210 ft. Only the two brief "which-one-is-the-real-crux " sections warrant the 5.4, but they both yield to easy footwork (lots of ripples, huecos, etc.). The rest of the climb seemed to be more like 5.2/5.3. Be careful in the runouts, though: I was having so much fun that I was moving faster than I ought to've on the slab above the first belay, and a foothold crumbled just after I weighted it, 20 ft above my last piece. Never found that good blue Alien placement, but there's a pocket tailor-made for a black one in the same general area (i.e., below the slot). A #3 tricam protected the only mildly tricky move directly below the slot.

The descent definitely sucks. The summit is a sharp-edged ridge that runs north-south, and someone had put a sling around a sketchy-looking block on the south side and rapped directly off the very summit itself. It seems wiser to downclimb the 15ft of 5.0 to the ledge on the other side and rap off the many slings around the tree. Hard to see the slings until you're *west* of the tree.

Had so much fun on this one that we had to do it twice!