Red Neck Slab 

Although this route was stance drilled you are never more than an arms length or two from a bolt or piece of gear when you have a hard move to do. Put up on a freezing cold, windy day. Much scrubbing revealed a nice slab with cool red varnish. Climbing rice with a drill sucks so we corrected the situation.

after doing this pitch some weeks ago, I thought this was the second pitch of one of the other climbs. Is this incorrect? Does every pitch constitute a different route? Is this the latest trend?....to make separate routes rather than one multi-pitch route? Just wondering being a data freak and all.

james, most of us just fly to the begining of this climb making it it's own separate entity.

i can understand your confusion. blue collar crack's 2nd pitch continues through a hand crack system right of its initial anchors.(shaded area-bottom right in picture)
the red neck slab seed was planted after coming up and down blue collar ogling the slab to the left.
red neck slab breaks left from the anchors and up to a stance.
blue collars 2nd pitch is more continuous and follows the more obvious line. (at least obvious to us)
i think the nature of the climbing, for example, the ledges and various branches of direction constitute the need for different routes.

red neck slab is to blue collar crack what betty's 3d is to betty's altered elbow.
its not the latest trend, at least not for me. i'm definately not that cool.
i hope that clears things up a bit.

Fair enough.....Thanks for the clarification...as I didn't see the red slab post before and I climbed it as the second pitch of something else....guess one may kind of climb anywhere up there, Strong work on the clean up, I just don't have the tenacity for it like you guys...but I appreciate it!

Valid point. If the author of those other routes were known we would probably have named it in association with those other slabs. I think if you climbed that unknown .10+ into Redneck it would be a nice, second pitch to it. I can see how it would be confusing - it was to us as we were trying to sort out the existing lines and the continuity of the crack systems.

Good, but short and a little gritty. Well, it was pouring rain when I climbed it which probably exaggerated the grit factor. Just a little!

Actually I believe S. Gileadi climbed a new and independent line that deserves an entry on its own... More on that later :)
Gear recommendation was dead on, I placed all three pieces to get to the bolt. The crux is getting to the 2nd bolt, nice moves on slightly gritty rock that should clean up with traffic. Too bad it's not longer.
We rapped to the anchor of Zesty then to the ground with a 70m

For a chimney it was actually quite comfortable. And more importantly, dry enough to climb.