The Big Easy 

This is a link up that combines new and borrowed parts of older routes, resulting in a three pitch 5.8+ that goes the full height of the cliff. If going higher and not just doing the first pitch as a sport pitch (lowering back to your belayer), you can continue climbing directly to the Sesame anchors as 1 pitch, skipping the belay on the ledge. The second pitch (or 3rd if you belay at the first anchor) of this route starts off of the Sesame Street anchors. It is nice but very easy, and has not been cleaned. It has a large loose flake on it that needs to be removed. Be careful of it, for yourself and those below.

There is a two eyebolt anchor on top of the pitch above Sesame,just below the tree ledge. If you are going to do the last pitch of Slick, up the white buttress, mantel onto the tree ledge and belay from a tree. This last pitch has not been retroed yet and there is no top anchor I think it took small to medium gear with an old pin or two (5.8 might be a sandbag compared to the bottom ;) )

-Edited to clarify

there is a big chunk that broke off about two bolts below the anchor, no harder just have to work left then back to the next bolt

So if you wanted to do the multi pitch parts of this route then you would have to do three pitches in order to finish it up? How can you go about doing this?

I never got back to finish cleaning and equipping this. What you would do though is climb the first pitch of the Big Easy, but continue past the belay ledge up through the notch to the belay at the top of Sesame St. A line of bolts leads up directly from there ( uncleaned so watch out for a large loose rock). From the next belay, below a tree ledge, you would scramble up over a short vegetated area to reach the left side of the high white buttress at the top of the cliff. There is a rt angling seam with a pin or 2 in it that is the last pitch of Slick. Tim Gotwols said that I could clean and bolt it, but I haven't found a time when I was there, the cliff was open and there was nobody below

oh that makes much more sense now, is it about the same grade to climb to the anchors of Sesame St? or do you meet up witht he upper crux of Sesame St?

You go around the Sesame crux and come at the anchors from the right, so same 5.7 grade

FA Mark Sprague 2/05

In 1982, the upper half of the first pitch of the 'Big Easy' was the original 2nd pitch of 'Metamorphosis'. The 2nd pitch originally began up the obvious left facing ramp corner of 'Metamorphosis'. The 3rd pitch was done that year.
I made attempts on rappel to improve the 1st pitch higher up section (including trying to nail into a crack a railroad spike. After failing at that I gave up on the route. I Climbed it this spring. The start is a stick clip or had a crazy commitment to reach the first bolt for us. My arms aren't has strong as they used too be.

On the way up Bourbon Street I noticed a bolt on this 2nd (or 3rd if you are referencing the new guide book) pitch. Without knowing about anchors above Sesame Street, I extended the 2nd bolt in the starting corner of the 2nd pitch. I snuck past the right side of a tree to the bolt I had seen below but realized I didn't have a runner for this bolt so decided to run out to the next bolt above on easy ground. Next time i'll have to try and find the anchors I should have been at.

You should really do the first and second pitch as a single pitch, there will be a little more rope drag but if you dont the second pitch on has one bolt and is boring by itself, its maybe 25 feet with only ten feet of fun climbing. So run P1 and P2 together :)

So I'm not sure, but the last bolt before the anchors on pitch 1 felt completely out of reach. I found myself 3 or 4 feet to the left of it and decided it was less sketchy to skip the bolt than to try to clip it. Am I using bad beta? Or did a hold break? The specific route I took up this climb felt very natural.

I remember feeling the same, I always end up clipping it when it is by my waist because getting up higher seems to make it easier. Not sure if a hold broke or what but it is a little out of reach...

I think I remember the last bolt being a hip clip with a little reach, but it shouldn't be anything that feels sketchy. If possible I always make my bolts so somebody 4' 11" can still clip without too much problem. You might have to relax and use smaller foot holds though. I wouldn't be surprised if something broke. Some of the flakes are kind of soft.

My three stars are for the first pitch. It's a lot of fun and I can't ask for a better moderate to warm up on. I found the next pitch(es) to not be as good but it's a fun way to get to the top and worth it for the view alone. We combined the "second pitch" with the third pitch and did two clean raps back to the base. I'd recommend this method as the second pitch is just one bolt to the sesame street anchors. Don't fall here as it's a bit run out and I can't imagine it would be good for your rope with the flake and corner. It's pretty easy climbing though.