Gnarly  5.5

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Type:  Trad, 2 pitches Consensus:  5.5 [details] FA:  Unknown Submitted By:  Steve Marr on Jan 8, 2007 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (7) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Looking back towards El Rito from the top of Gnarl...

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Description 

P1. Climb an easy (5.2), run out face past a couple of small trees to a large belay ledge. The protection on this pitch is a little sparse. I slung one of the small trees and placed a questionable cam.

P2. Fun pitch. Climb the face above the belay ledge and work right to the obvious right-facing dihedral. Step around the corner and into the dihedral. Follow the fun dihedral almost to the top where easy scrambling leads to another good belay to the right of a pine.

To descend, pick up the trail at the top of the cliff and hike down and left, through the rocky gully to the left of the crag.

Location 

Next climb to the right of Commie Pinkos. Start just downhill from the second pine tree.

Protection 

Standard trad rack. Bring a couple loose slings to sling the trees on P1.