Poke around through the woods to the left of Currey's Diagonal approximately 50 yards until finding a distinct, short, hand crack that leads to a ledge below a left-facing dihedral. One can scramble around to the left to avoid the short crack, although it is fun as a boulder problem or one piece pitch. The climb above follows the handcrack in the dihedral, the crux coming swiftly, followed by fun jamming that ends all to soon at the top. Set up and anchor, belay, and walk off to the left.
Protection
Moderate-sized (short pitches), rack heavy in the hand sized cams. No rap anchor.
Fun route. Instead of walking off L, you can also walk about 40 feet to your right and rap off an anchor, coming down on the other side of the rock. 60 meter rope reaches easily.
Nice hand crack, wish it was longer. I agree with the previous comment and would not really recommend walking off the other side (NE) to the left unless you don't mind sliding down an easy offwidth. My partner on the way down sliced his hand up pretty bad at the very bottom when he slid out of the chimney and ended almost landing his head on a rock. Not the way he wanted to go- on Mother's Day.
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