Western Front 

1st half is the West Face (Galen Rowell, Chris Jones 1971)
2nd half is New Era (Alan Bartlett, Kim Walker 1978)
The combo became Western Front when Peter Croft attempted to repeat Rowell's route WITH him but Rowell couldn't remember where it went, so they ended up on New Era. Croft describes it as "the best looking line on the biggest face on Mt. Russell" and claims the fourth pitch is the best he's done on Mt. Russell. It's the only route I've done on Russell and it is certainly of VERY high quality. A little graininess on the 2nd pitch, but otherwise excellent rock in beautiful, steep, airy corners.

All this info is from Croft's excellent book "The Good, The Great, and The Awesome". Also worth noting is that Croft calls it a 900' grade IV. I can't remember exactly how long it was but we did it in 6 pitches; none of them short, one of them with some simuling. It does go pretty quickly though with its obvious features and the descent is quick and easy too. Highly recommended.

Oops.....
I have the unfortunate habit of forgetting just how long some of these routes really are.
now that I think about it, It's definitely a big grade IV.
After doing the Incredible Hulk, they all felt small.

we didn't read the beta from Croft til afterwards: the crack in the corner on pitch 4 & 5 is "suitable only for knifeblades and girl fingers" if you do it this way as we did, bring at least doubles of micro cams and many small nuts. expect some powerful and insecure stemming on gravelly face. we did shorter pitches to start then a couple 200ft rope stretchers with some simulclimbing. I would say it remains 10+ but with cruxes on pitch 1, 4 & 5. pitches 2,3 & 6 are 5.8 or 5.9 with another 400ft of 4th and easy 5th to the summit. A worthy endeavor...

My partner and I did this route last week. When we were done we were both grinning from ear to ear.
P1 easy and about 80 feet to a ledge
P2 kicks your butt right off the ledge for about 30 feet of 10c(hard 5.9), then stays sustained 5.9 for about 120 more feet.
P3 is 5.9 with a traverse and some funky arete climbing in double/triple flaring cracks.
P4 is like P3 but a little harder up the arete. Croft says to back up the loose flake with a purple tcu. We did that. I also found a red camalot placement up the arete about 4 feet higher. The red cam was the only thing that I think made the anchor solid.
P5 is long sustained 10a climbing up the dihedral for about 185 feet. Belay takes anything from yellow alien to yellow camalot, so save some gear. We belayed high on the ledge on the right side, after finishing the left facing dihedral.
P6 was really fun 5.8 climbing in great hand and finger cracks.
P7 was a long simul-climb to the top.
We brought a rack of doubles to yellow camalot, and a single #3. We also brought a set of nuts. No small nuts were needed.

WOW- this climb blew my mind. Full value- three of the pitches are simply stellar, and there's nothing wrong with the rest of it. Where else do you jam/lieback/arete slap all at the same time? Belay at top of p4 takes some creativity. The final 10a corner is sustained for 170 of its 200 feet. Still drooling.

The crux is short on P2, the "belay flake" on P4 is less than ideal...but can be backed up by a #1 Camalot a bit higher, and P5 is absolutely stellar. Cool route.

Super fun line. 5.10 that high up was suprisingly taxing. Lots of fun though.