Welcome to the Gunks is a nice little single-pitch climb that passes through 5 separate roofs!
The access trail for Welcome to the Gunks is about an 8-min. walk from the Uberfall, and a 4-min. walk from where the East Trapps Connector Trail meets the carriage road.
Start 15' right of Fall To Grace, in the center of a low roof with two crack/flake systems.
Approaching the first roof is difficult and scary -- a few unprotected moves on slopers will get you to some decent gear. The rest is well protected, but the climbing is unrelenting.
This used to be rated 5.9. We thought it had five 5.9 cruxes, the slab, the first roof, the scary moves to the second roof, the second roof itself (the actual crux), and the roof on P2. The slab approach was always scary for me, and the second roof never felt easy. If you do P2, you have a bunch of junky climbing above the P2 crux as you wander up and eventually a bit right to a tree that you can belay and rap from.
I've done this route 5-6 times. The face climbing (about 5.9-) after the first roof is not well protected: if you fell, you'd hit a ledge. Certainly, if you climbed the initial unprotected slab and the first roof without difficulty that section shouldn't stop you, but the potential for a nasty fall is there if you make a mistake.
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