Follow chickenheads with fun mantles and two really bad bolts(not one as in the Ruckman topo)supplemented with small nuts and cams through an overlap and into a flake and crack system with fun jamming.
Location
This is on the middle tier of the east side of the Waterfront and can be approached from Disco Duck or from the ledges and gully above and left of Paranoia Streak. You can also walk over from Touchup with a little exposed scrambling. The route proper starts left of Beam Me Up Scotty but we didn't feel comfortable gaining the ledge where it starts so we climbed out of the gully right and traversed over to the climb. This is an exposed way to do it so we roped up and clipped some gear but I'm sure there is a better way to get over there.
So, there has to be a better way to get over there because its a bit exposed for one or two moves gaining that slab.
Those bolts are full value museum quality. The first is a buttonhead in a dark water streak that shimy's around when you jiggle the hanger and the second is a corroding 1/4" stud that has a great tcu placement just above it.
I write this to warn the 5.8 climber because you'll need to be comfortable with that kind of gear until it gets updated. Otherwise, you can sew it up. When it does get updated it'll be a fun climb.
If you are an adventurous 5.8 climber, you could do both pitches of Cranial Prophylactic and then walk over with a little scrambling to this one. Or Touchup (9)and then walk over. Or Disco Duck (.10a) and then up that gully.
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