Smorgasbord is located on the right side of the wall and starts in a shallow obtuse dihedral formed by the Smorgasbord wall and the Triple Cracks buttress. The exact line that you take it up to you - there are a number of variations that are all around 5.6. The most obvious line climbs a grass seam for about 10 feet above the slab and leads to a large flake that climbs up and left. Follow the flake around its left side to a ledge. Small cams protect the flake, and bring long runners to reduce rope drag. Scramble up a few feet to a two bolt rap anchor.
Protection
Standard rack with cams to a #2 Camalot. Two bolt anchor at the top. Long slings are helpful.
The anchors on this route are hard to find if you don't know where they are. I ran out of rope and realized I had passed them.
At the top of the dihedral where it turns right and forms a shelf, from here go right past a tree and the anchors are on the right. The anchors are about a total of twenty feet to the right of the shelf.
Definitely use lots of runners on this one. The rope drag was so bad I had to stop and pull up lots of slack to progress. It was a real pain to bring up my second.
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