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Northwest Route 

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Type: Trad, 1 pitch, 170 feet
Consensus: 5.8- [details]
FA: John Newman (June 1976)
Submitted By: caughtinside on Aug 21, 2008

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Description 

The Northwest Route is a grungy wide gully on the West face of the Charlatan. There are a couple fun chicken wings to be had in there, but this route isn't why you came to the Needles.


Location 

West face of the Charlatan. Descend the Djin/Charlatan notch, walk down 3 mins till you see the wide crack in the West face.


Protection 

Gear to 3"



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By caughtinside
From: Oakland CA
Aug 21, 2008

We were getting a few drops and the sky was threatening to open up, so we pulled out the guide to find a single pitch moderate and found this. Hiked down... pretty uninspiring but we climbed it anyway! And had some fun.