This is a nice offwidth to hand crack. It has just enough features and chimneying to make it a non-suffer type of offwidth. Much less of a thrutch than the ow on Crescent Crack (for reference).
Location
There is a pine tree where Westwind Butress meets up with a gully on its bottom and left.
Protection
A few runners, medium nuts, a TCU or two and .75-#6 Camalot. You can exit the crack system about where there is a chockstone on edges right of the crack and there are two good nut placements in the crack on that right face. If you walk straight right and not up you can get to the bomber and new anchors of Grumpy old Men. Its really easy but a little runnout as long as you don't go too high. Otherwise, there is a nice chockstone belay and/or a tree with old, horrible slings on it from which to rap.
If you plan on using the Grumpy Old Men anchor, plan on a downclimb ( on positive holds) to reach the anchor, otherwise there is a tree w/ slings 40+ feet above the Grumpy Old Men anchor for rapping, or continuing up the Westwind cracks.
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