To the left of Godzilla, City Park, etc. Starts with a fun 10a section in a short left-facing dihedral. Trends right then back left and up a wide crack (protects great with a #3 Camalot). This "pitch" ends at chains, but the fun continues if you keep going to the next anchor. The wide section continues, with high steps and laybacking. A #3.5 and a #4 Camalot sews this up. Two cruxes remain where the crack peters down to fingers then hands. Finish on a finger crack with big moves off edges and locks by stemming and traversing to the right. The route goes up another 2 pitches from here, but I'm embarassed to say I haven't done them. Please add comments below if you have - I just wanted to get the ball rolling with this description.
Protection
Doubles through #2 Camalots, single #3, #3.5 and #4 to sew it up, some small nuts. Some people (Tripplet) lead the first pitch on about 6 pieces. Whatever. You can run TR laps if you hang a 70m rope, but make SURE you place a directional (#1 Metolius) to the left of the anchor or the rope will get completely jammed in the crack and you won't be able to move it at all.
By Andy Laakmann Site Landlord From: Jackson Hole, WY Jul 2, 2006
You can do just the first section at 5.9+ and stop at the chains. A small TCU is useful to protect the last move before the chains. This is a fine, short outing requiring a bunch of different techniques. For protection bring one set of cams TCUs-#4 Camalot and some nuts.
Above the first pitch, there are 3 more pitches of excellent 5.11 climbing:
Pitch 2: A short jam/lieback that gets progressively harder until the last move (.11b). Ledgy climbing leads to an anchor up and right.
Pitch 3: Step left and enter a flare with a fingercrack (.11a). Physical jamming leads up around the left side of a roof and up a slab to a belay.
Pitch 4: A slab leads to steeper slab climbing through left-facing corners and arches (.11c). Easier (.9) slabs then lead to a belay at the top of the wall.
As of '07 they are squeaky clean and climbable again thanks to mammoth cleaning efforts by Ben and Ryan. Kudos!
This climb, complete to the top of the wall, is absolutely *****!
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