The Planet Eater 

Wasps = no stars. I once got stung while leading at Willow Canyon Crags. No me gusta!!!!!

I can top that....when I first led this route (1993 ?) someone was shooting a gun at me from the cabin area across the canyon.

This is a great climb when there are no wasps. I have never seen them there before so maybe its seasonal.

RAID!!! For the wasps not the bullets.

We did this one Mar 22, but didn't have to tangle with the wasps. But, then again, it was about 50 degrees and super windy. Mebe it's a cold thing and they'll emerge when it heats up?

All evidence of the wasps was gone today. A really good climb that punches you in the face if you think it's over before the chains.

The topo in the book breaks this out in three pitches and it seems like it might be tough to link 1&2 for only two pitches. The total length seems to be closer to 260'

When doing all three pitches, is it possible to rap to the ground in two raps with one rope? The book made it sound like two 80' raps get back down. Unless we missed something, the first rap (last pitch) was way more than half of a rope 130'. Schenanigans made up the difference.

This felt like a very sustained and interesting outing. Quite long and highly recommended.

I was in the middle of a cruxy, kind-of-runout section up high when the bullets starting landing. My belayer said "Jesus...someone's shooting at us". My brain did a quick calculation of the chances of someone hitting me from across the canyon and came up with: don't sweat it, keep climbing.

My belayer and everyone else at the crag starting yelling loudly to get the shooter's attention. I'm assuming the shooter didn't know there were people on the rock. The shooting stopped pretty quickly.

Gives new meaning to the term "objective danger".

Did this in my Muiras and fell off the slab a couple of times as well as a bit higher when my feet slipped. It was pretty warm out. Borrowed Murdock's Acopas and it was like having glue on my feet. I want some of that rubber for my slab climbing shoes!

Only climbed the first pitch yesterday, but it was super fun. Slab down low was really hard for me, but maybe Boosters aren't the best slab shoe...

Great route. Would be one of my favorite if I can skip the slab section at the bottom.