Awesome, overhanging, tight hands corner. Start either from the sit start on good hand jams with one foot on an obvious foothold to the left, or start standing up from good jams with feet whereever it seems reasonable. Jam up the crack, past the horizontal break to the second ledge, where you top out and walk off right. One move of rattly fingers/lieback marks the crux. Classic.
Location
Looking up towards Walt's Rib, this is on the second tier, just about even with the right edge of the first tier.
Protection
2 pads (or 1 pad and a spotter), as there's an unfriendly rock directly underneath the crux.
Davin's book calls it 5.11b, but that's probably a little generous. Also, I can't remember who did the first ascent on this, but that information is easily filled in. I know jammer knows.
By Jason Funk From: Laramie Wyoming Oct 2, 2008 rating: 5.11a V2-
Really unique for Vedauwoo- no tape needed, splitter hand crack. Felt easier but that's probably because it's so clean. The crux for me was transitioning to the wider crack up top, go deep.
The 5.11 rating is if you jam it straight on, with the crux being a short section of ringlocks a little before the horizontal. Liebacking the crux knocks the difficulty down a good bit.
Walt's Rib
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