P.M.S. is a popular warmup at BONP, and is the easiest of the sport climbs at the crag.
Fun moves leaning off the arete with a crux section at the last bolt where it thins out. If you can control your hormones, try it without using the arete, which makes for a fun but contrived 5.11a.
Be careful not to send the loose gravel on the ledge below the anchor down on your belayer.
Location
The sharp-looking arete on a buttress right of the Wailing Banshees-Manic Crack-Lost Nerve face. Stops on a big ledge, which is an obvious landmark.
Protection
4 bolts to a 2 bolt anchor (out of sight on big ledge). At least 2 guidebooks say "only 3 bolts", but there are really 4 (the highest bolt is newer?).
By Jason Hundhausen From: Los Alamos, NM Jul 2, 2007 rating: 5.10a
I think the original route meant for you to climb on the face (11a), but the arete is also very fun! It was retrobolted from 3 to 4 bolts some time ago.
By Daniel Trugman From: Los Alamos, NM Dec 14, 2008 rating: 5.10a
Nice, clean, and sustained climbing but still the easiest sport route at BONP. The face on the left (with the arete off) is a little dirty and probably a bit of a sandbag at 11a, but it climbs all right.
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