Hard for the grade. The original route is different and was graded 5.4. As described, the route avoids some loose rock.
Climb the low-angle slab and corner to blocks, then move right and up to an overhang, passing the hang just left of a thin crack (crux), sometimes dirty from sand after rains, to a stance, then up to the pine tree belay/rap.
Location
At the top of a rock slope, about 25 feet left of the Gerdie Block and about 60 feet up from the Carriage Road.
Protection
Guide book says G, but the placing gear is strenuous at the crux (for the grade) and there is some loose rock.
Upper part is a little sandy. Protection is there. There is no rappel anchor at the top, try not to loop the rope over the tree. You can go up the block with the big tree, move left down to "69" about 20 feet away, there is a rappel anchor.
I've recently (within the past week) done Shit or Go Blind and No Picnic, and there is a cable covered with plastic that is looped around the tree that is on the ledge where the climbs end. The cable has a new Quik-Link attached to it.
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