Open Season 

FA:  ? Type:  Trad Consensus:  5.10c [details] Length:  1 pitch, 60 feet Views: 103 page views Submitted By: George Perkins on Feb 18, 2008 Add Photo  Add Comment

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BETA PHOTO: Open Season is the route shown in white. The yello...

Description 

Reach up to a left leaning finger crack, place a cam, and lieback a burly move (crux) to a decent ledge. Find gear here, and move up and right on face moves to the first bolt. Sustained 5.9/5.10- face climbing follows the open book above, passing a 2nd bolt, then moving into cracks that progressively widen to (small) hands size as the difficuly eases. Watch for loose pebbles just below the topout.
Another quality Dead Cholla crack, maybe just a little bit harder than Jam Time.

Location 

This climb is in the shallow dihedral/crack system just to the right of Lava Flows (which follows the first obvious bolted arete).

Protection 

1 set nuts, cams (1 ea) to 1.5". 2 bolts are in place. This climb has anchors to the right of the topout that are hard to reach when leading up to them; alternatively, reach left to the Lava Flows anchor.