Serpentine 

This is one of the best moderates on this wall (or at Suicide for that matter.)

On the first pitch use a green or yellow alien to protect. Also, the decent is done by traversing left 75 feet. A short exposed down climb leads to a rap station directly across from Piasono Pinnacle. Two raps will take you near the bottom of Bye Gully. From here there is a short down climb to the base of the Weeping Wall.

A quality route! Certainly NOT a soft 5.9. Even though the first pitch is 5.8, it is sustained and slick. The second pitch, (past the second bolt, is the crux. The grade is solid.....as better be your skills on slick slab with moderate runouts.

Additionally, the gear suggested by the page author is incorrect. The small, short crack on the face (left of the larger crack corner) is the start of the route. This crack indeed takes one or two medium nuts, or as suggested by the above comment, a yellow or green Alien (they fit perfectly!)

Besides quickdraws - all you need is a wire for the solid placement in the slot before the first bolt. Sling the tree at the top of the climb for a belay anchor.

My first route at Suicide. I hadn't been climbing that long when I lead this one. I had never led a trad route at 5.9 (actually my first trad lead was the day before on 5.4 White Maidens Walkway . . .), but I figured it would be no big deal since it was "bolted". I climbed it with 2 friends, Nick and Charles. On the second pitch I remember constantly feeling like I was way above the bolts, and the thought going through my head with each step was "please don't slip, please don't slip, please don't slip . . .".

My wife and Nick's girlfriend, Lauren, sat at the bottom and shared a bottle of wine while we climbed. The whole time Lauren and my wife were laughing hysterically at my Elvis leg, and heckling me from below. "Aww look, he's scared! HAHAHA"

After climbing pitch 2, the third 5.7 pitch felt really easy, and the fact that there was only one bolt didn't bug me too much :).

It was a fantastic climb. I'd love to climb it again today, since I'm sure it wouldn't seem nearly as scary as it did then . . .

One of the slickest, most slippery pieces of stone you'll ever set foot on. Listen to your feet squeak as you slab and edge your way up this pane of glass! Climb this in cool/cold weather.

Bye Gully is a rope eater! Consider downclimbing it.

Be careful when you start this route. The flake system that runs to the right looks very nice if you prefer crack to slab, and you might consider climbing that then traversing left onto the first bolt. My father thought the same thing then popped at the top of the flake, shattered his leg, bad day. The flake system apparently runs about 5.10b and the landing is RIGHT into a pot hole/tree root that loves to eat legs/feet.

Sadly having never climbed this I cant make a comment on the climbing, but just be careful about where you start the route, you could end up in a pretty bad situation.

Colin, are you referring to the larger left-facing flake? The route normally heads up the smaller right-facing flake below the bolt. Either one will take small gear, and I recall placing a small alien at the top of the smaller right-facing flake in a pin scar just before it peters out. That's sufficient to keep you safe to the first bolt.

Sorry to hear about the injury. I'm currently recovering from a tib/fib fracture, so I can definitely sympathize! I wish your partner well...

I very possibly over-starred, over-rated the climb and under-rated the protection but, for me, this was pushing my level of climbing and was such an amazing climb! On sighted it and just put any consequence of falling out of my head and just climbed! The crux is great especially 12ft above your last bolt!!!

P1: 5.8 ( with a traverse) Left facing dihedral small nut placements, traverse up and to the left x3 bolts. up and right 1 bolt then straight up to first belay.

P2: 5.9+ Crux pitch kinda of zigzags back and forth sometimes the bolts are hard to spot. I believe the crux is after the 2nd or 3rd bolt and it gets pretty run out. !!!Crux is not well protected, it was bolted on lead.

P3: 5.8 R This pitch is really run out at the end... Trad anchor!!! two #3's and #2's

Have fun and get in the zone!

This is a great slab route, but after a few pitches of slab no matter how good I usually would like to move on to some crack climbing.

-P1. At the third bolt it seems from the Vogel topo that you should be moving far right but the fourth bolt is actually directly above you. I climbed to the right and then stepped back left to clip the bolt because going straight up looked blank. You only need one medium nut to protect the start, right facing flake.

-P2. Yea the crux but pretty well protected for ground-up slab climbing.

-P3. Run out but easy.