South by Southwest 

This is a wonderful climb! The .10d section is a bouldery little move that took me a while to figure out where to get my feet. We linked the .10d pitch and the .11a pitch. Super awesome views of people on the Northeast Face of Higher Cathedral.

I guess this is more like 5.10.(edit:5.10c. 10 b would be a sandbag.)
Compared to Moratorium or the 5.11 pitches in the Nose the crux-pitch is pretty easy.
Fun climb though, and awesome view of El Cap on the summit , take your camera.

Suggested rack: Doubles from .3" - 3"
extra: maybe another #2 and #3 Camalot/friend if you want to place a ton of pro.
Blue TCUs/green aliens helpful for the 10d section.

1 - 70 m rope is suggested for the rap route, I think (don't hold me to this since I didn't do it) you can take 1 - 60m also, but you have to do three raps down the gulley below the ledge.

I live in the valley, and it seems to me that this route is 10d/ sofffft 11a. Don't go up there thinking its going to be 10a/b.

I linked the 10d/11a pitch, I highly recommend doing that with mucho runners under the roofs.

We rapped with one 70 m rope. I agree this is quite soft for 11a in the Valley. Many who have done this found the bouldery thin crack a bit more challenging than the enduro hand crack pitch. Great views at the top!

The third pitch bouldery 10d section:

We wrapped with one rope but I think it is better to have two allowing you to skip the hanging rappel station. This station appears to be bomber and safe (good newish looking bolts) but I just found it scary watching the ends of my rope flapping in the breeze (below the rap station) especially since there is pretty good exposure there.

Great views from the summit. Makes you realize you are in Yosemite.

I think if you're somewhere near pushing your limit and you only bring doubles in the #1 BD size you may wish you had more for the crux pitch.

For the gear belay above the .10d and below the .11a we used two #1 BD's in the anchor alone. There was a fixed hex there as of Oct '11, but besides that it's pretty much either red or gold BD cams as your only options, and there's a whole lot of parallel-sided steep hand crack above the belay (with pods, so that helps with gear). YMMV.

Great climb, good exposure on the two $ pitches.

We used the intermediate rap anchor and it was uncomfortable as hell.

A pretty solid scramble of an approach, but the summit was totally worth it! 7-8hrs car to car, a little over half was spent approaching/rapping/decending. Approach the back of the spire via the climbers left (kinda go clockwise around it). Keep scrambling talus until you are almost to the notch between the two spires. Have fun!