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Sunshine Face - Right Side 


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The Sunshine Face is the premiere wall at Suicide and offers stellar face climbing up to three pitches in length.

There are some nice cracks here but the main appeal is thin face climbing. Those enjoying the art of slab climbing will be rewarded with gems such as Sundance (5.10b), Valhalla (5.11a), Iron Cross (5.11a), New Generation (5.11c), Moondance (5.11c) and Ishi (5.12d).


Getting There 

Hike left past the Buttress of Cracks to reach this wall which sits just above and slightly right of the Smooth Sole Wall.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Sunshine Face - Right Side:
Hesitation   5.10a     Trad, 2 pitches, 300 feet   
Sundike   5.10a     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
Sundance   5.10b     Trad, 3 pitches, 300 feet   
Hesitation Direct   5.10d     Trad, 1 pitch   
Nirvana   5.11a     Trad, 1 pitch, 160 feet   
Iron Cross   5.11a     Trad, 2 pitches, 230 feet   
Valhalla   5.11a     Trad, 3 pitches, 300 feet   
New Generation   5.11c     Trad, 3 pitches, 280 feet   
Moondance   5.11c     Trad, 2 pitches, 300 feet   
Ishi   5.12d     Trad, 2 pitches, 300 feet   
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Ivan Couch drilling on the first ascent, pitch 1.

Valhalla 5.11a  CA : Tahquitz & Suicide Rocks : ... : Sunshine Face - Right Side
This ultra-classic tour of the Sunshine Face is perhaps the best face climb of it's grade at the rock, and long ago an ascent was a rite of passage that gained you entry into the fabled Stonemasters.Scramble up to a ledge with a pine tree directly below Log Ledge, a sloping shelf with a dead log, and locate the start which lies just right of the pine tree.P1) Climb past three bolts (5.11a) to the right side of Log Ledge and a 2 bolt belay. P2) Traverse straight right, clip a bolt a...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA


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By Chris Owen
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From: La Crescenta and Big Bear Lake
Mar 4, 2006

IMHO probably the best piece of granite in all of SoCal. I have particularly fond memories of leading the last pitch of Sundance (Sundike Variation) in the late afternoon glow.

By usetob
From: Visalia, Ca.
May 5, 2008

Where is the Ishi?