Start just right of Keswick Lads Day Out on the north side of the formation. Watch out for weak friable rock in sections of the crack.
Pitch 1: 100' 5.7 C1Make a long reach to the first pin then aid past three bolts to a good finger sized crack. Clean aid the crack using TCU's. Pass a pod with some wide crack and a short section of easy free climbing. Continue aiding the thin crack to a bolt anchor. Pitch 2: 85' 5.8 C1Aid the hand and fist sized crack up and over the roof. After the roof make some slabby moves on slippery sandy stone before aiding one last steep section and making one more scary free move to the anchor.
Pitch 3: 100' 5.5Follow the offwidth up and left until it turns into a 4th class chimney and belay from gear near the summit.
Protection
wires and lots of tcu's and cams up to 4 inches with many extra TCU's.
the route FAMILY Plot is right of KESWICK LADS DAY OUT.. First climbed in Oct 2000 by P and A Ross. A full discription is in Desert Rock IV by Bjornstad
It's a little over 200' from the top of pitch 2 to the summit. We downclimbed the slabs and the offwidth (tedious) and rapped the route. A faster way to finish Family Plot would be to lug the gear to the top and rap RIP.The belay/rappel anchor for RIP is real obvious, close to the summit.
I climbed this route in april-ish of 05, the first pitch was a fun crack, I got a nice sand shower at the pitch 1 belay. I also got stung on the finger by a wasp at the first belay. We rapped kenswick so we could scope it.
Just a warning-- someone shot at the anchors at the top of the first pitch on Kenswick, there were bullet holes in the webbing and a few bullets hit within an inch of the bolts, one got knicked too. It's kinda scary because there's not much of a stance there and the bolts are not too good anymore.
Keswick Lads Day Out:- Last year (2005) someone had left a full fixed rope at the belay of the big corner mentioned above . This rope was in place for quite some considerable time . This is the reason some gun happy cowboy shot the crap out of the anchors trying to get the rope . More blame should be given to the climbers who abandoned this rope, leaving it flapping in the breeze for months.
the third bolt was pulled straight out when my buddy stood on it, and he decked...broken foot. just shows how skipping bolts on a bolt ladder isn't the best decision always, or on soft rock. bolt is now gone though.
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