The Scene Is Not For Sale 

Could not find this route. Really!!! I did the boulder start and clipped up to the cross over point. Looking directly up a blunt arete there was a line of bolts with little chalk... headed up... grim moves! It appears that all the big and chalked holds (which are about 3ft right of this bolt line) are on the route Split the Scene. So I moved left across a giant Hueco and then up another line of bolts to the anchors of I'm guessing was/is Crossfire. Who knows... good route this way too.

The bolt lines in this area are a little confusing because they are squeeze jobs. Climbing 3' right of the bolt line on this (which is the only area showing frequent travel..i.e. chalk) would put you into reasonable territory that seems to match the rating, but would also put the bolts to the next route to the right at about your right hip. Going straight over the bolt line looks hard, improbable, and shows no signs of travel.

The link-up Russ did was fun with good moves and is worth doing in its own right. You would probably want to use long draws on the last bolt where you leave this line and the first one where you join Crossfire to avoid rope drag.

The guide book is incorrect, Why am I not surprised. The "Classic" Scene Is Not For Sale 10d/11a, climbs the boulder problem and continues up 4 bolts and then heads right, following the obvious weakness/easier climbing past a 10b section to the top. Split The Scene 12a/b, starts the same and heads left and up at the 4th bolt. There is a hard inobvious, boulder problem to get on the lt bolt line, which involves stepping up on a now broken/smaller lt foothold and a long reach way lt to a lt handhold which allows you to pull onto the "blunt arete"/route. After seeing your post I went back and did the route last weekend. The route is intact, though a little harder with the broken foothold, and there was no chalk on the far away lt handhold, used to pull over onto the route at the conection.

So duh, are you saying the guidebook is wrong? How could that happen? Are there any other mistakes in the guide that we all should know about? Ratings, route lines, etc?

Aha. Well that makes alot more sense....reversed in the guidebook. So on the linkup you are getting the crux boulder prob start of TSINFS and then two more cruxes about the same difficulty..one being the last move of the traverse that puts you onto Crossfire proper...a psuedo iron cross thing, and one near the top of Crossfire with a long move from an undercling horn to a good horn. Link up makes for a good sustained route for the grade.

HAHAHAAA!!!1 Well Russ, that's what happens when guide book authors write guides to areas they have never climbed at and then don't let someone that knows the area look at and make corrections before it is published. And yes there are other errors, not only at NJC. I made a list of corrections for route info(NJC) that you and Susan submited and sent it to her. Most of the incorrect info is, misrated(overrated) routes and fa info, but there are a few route discription errors as well.

Awesome route! My favorite in New Jack so far. Long for the area, overhung, sustained, a bit technical, but on good holds. If you're still fighting down your inner sissy like me, the slab climb from the last bolt to the anchors is intimidating. Definitely recommend this route to anyone heading to NJC.

This route pumped me out by the sixth or seventh bolt. I have never climbed anything like this anywhere else - I can't believe the line just keeps going and going! I was able to do all the moves, but ended up resting after each clip on the upper section. Definitely need to go back and red point! I really recommend this route for anyone in the area looking for a sustained challenge!

Heady lead!

Climbing this route a year later was interesting. The bottom moves are definitely sequencey and height dependent, and the rock is quite slippery now. The upper portion actually has quite a few rests and feels no harder than mid .10 range... but the rests let you shake the pump out. Still so much fun!