Walden's Room 

Descent info:

• With 2 60 meter ropes do one rap from the summit (you can do this part with one rope) to the top of pitch 2. Then one 180’ rap to the ground.
• With one 60meter rope do one rap from the summit to the top of pitch 2. Another rap to the top of Easton's Corner(this is the5.11 left facing corner to the right of the original start). These rap anchors are visible from the ground. Then one 100’ rap to the bottom.

Route is best done in 4 pitches. Pitch 3 is a scramble, but necessary to set up your partner for the last pitch. The rock quality deteriorates at the top and I took a fall near last pin when large foothold broke loose. Might be best to aid through this section?? Nice to have #5 and #6 Camalot for P2 Fatty (sl. sandbagged for 5.9).

Very fun route, and quite mellow for a "tower".

P1 is short, and is a fun 5.9 handcrack with good gear.

P2 is definitely a chimney, with an offwidth move or two to get established. A fat bolt protects the opening move into the chimney - which is the crux of the pitch. From there, plenty of feet on the left wall keep things relatively straightforward for a squeeze chimney.... but still expect a little struggle. I placed a #6 camalot above the bolt (I used it lower on the pitch as well, and then back cleaned it). Beyond that, there was a surprising amount of good gear on the left wall - I think I placed two small offset nuts (both bomber) and a #2 camalot. No need to bring anything bigger than a #6.

P3 is a scramble up and right, but most will want to keep the rope on for one sandy move. I didn't see a drilled angle below the finger crack, but you're on a big ledge and it is easy to build an anchor in the crack.

P4 10+ thin crack to a two bolt ladder. The business is very short (less than 10 feet), and easy to french free if needed. I didn't even try to free the upper pin ladder, the rock was crap. There are only two pins on the ladder, and it is very easy to stand on the lower pin to get the upper pin. No need for any aiding equipment.

Descent: The top anchor of two drilled pins is getting a little funky, but was still solid. We did the descent in 4 single rope raps. Pulling a double rope rap from the top of the second pitch looked like it would suck, hence our motivation to do shorter raps. From the top of P2 you'll rap to another anchor off to the side - you'll see it on the ledge below the chimney when climbing up.

My gear: Nuts (including small), one set TCUs or small cams, 1x0.5 camalot, 1x0.75 camalot, 1x#1 camalot, 2x#2 camalot, 2x#3 camalot, 1x#4 camalot (definitely optional), 1x#6 camalot. Don't bother bringing two big pieces, it is easy to back clean if you need to.

Josh Gross and I updated the anchors to modern equipment yesterday. You only need one rope for the raps. Our single sixty barely reached from the top of pitch two, but if you don't think you will reach then you can do a final shorter rap from the anchor that is just off pitch two (You can see the ground from there to know if the rope is down).

I agree with all the ANdy has to say above. I would add that when Josh began removing the old anchor he said "I wonder how long...."> His first hit with the hammer removed the first pin. Very little rust was holding it in. The second pin took about 6 times as much effort.

Anchors are bomber. P1 great hand crack. P2 fun, sandy... squeeze. getting to the anchor is a bit sketchy. P3, traverse to base of finger crack. P4 good pro, a big reach, moving past the first pin was a funky boulder problem. slapping slopers. cool summit. we rapped 3 times with just one 60m even though we brought a tag. Thanks again Sam and Josh for all that great work. peace.