Name that route by description PNW edition (#2)

Okay I guess this is way too obscure - the route in question is called Hot Cherry Bendover (5.11b) at Burgers & Fries just to the right of Nookie Monster. Here is a thread on squamishclimbing.com that mentioned the route. Peter Croft has a chapter in The Trad Climber's Bible talking about how doing solo laps on this route helped him prepare for thumbs-up jams and his FA of Stevens Pass Motel at Midnight Rock.

Let's do something more straight forward instead... This next route is an extension of a test piece at a very popular crag. It shares the same start and finish with a different but still very popular and easier test piece. The name of this extension is a play on the easier test piece and the harder test piece. One of the cruxes involves getting established in a weird flared corner and the other crux involves some rather wild stemming.

Sushi Farmer? 

You got it Chris!

Ignatius Piwrote:

This one doesn't seem to be going anywhere; I'll try giving it a hefty push.

The part of the supplementary clue that gives the name of a Yosemite route is "Deuce's TNF 'line of '89' ". This breaks down thus:

Deuce = John Middendorf.

TNF = The North Face, which has a logo that depicts....Half Dome.

'line of '89' = a route put up in 1989.

Middendorf and Walt Shipley made the FA of Kali Yuga on Half Dome's NW Face in 1989; there's a slideshow of the ascent on his website. If we then edit the supplementary clue we get:

"Wreckage infused with Tennessee hydrogen after retreating guy bails from Kali Yuga results in icy highway."

Wreckage is an anagram clue. Tennessee and hydrogen have obvious abbreviations; use the shortest available. 'Retreating guy' is 'yug'. 'Bails from' should be obvious. If you solve the anagram you'll get the name of an 'icy highway' which should give you a clue to the location of the route you're looking for and the feature on it - cue 'Harley, Hells Angels, Hog' - where all the skis were stashed.

If anybody's really bored by now and would like to post up a new clue - be my guest and we can knock this one on the head!

Edit. Not Hairway to Stephen; wrong state, and the original clue isn't at all cryptic - just a bit lateral thinking. I'll leave it open; somebody might just do it.

: "Wreckage infused with Tennessee hydrogen after retreating guy bails from Deuce's TNF line of '89' results in icy highway."

Did this ever get solved?  Way brainy folks here!  I have been trying to do cryptic crosswords lately, fun stuff.  Cheers

John Middendorfwrote:

: "Wreckage infused with Tennessee hydrogen after retreating guy bails from Deuce's TNF line of '89' results in icy highway."

Did this ever get solved?  Way brainy folks here!  I have been trying to do cryptic crosswords lately, fun stuff.  Cheers

Hi John. MattB answered the main clue - albeit very cleverly by misunderstanding one of its elements which nonetheless pointed him towards the correct answer: Denali's West Buttress. I don't think anybody actually worked out this supplementary clue although my later hint effectively removed the jiggery-pokery with letters just leaving an anagram to solve. I subsequently gave the final answer but won't mention it here in case you're still working on it.

As a bit of cheeky subterfuge I hid the answer to Drederek's clue 'in plain sight' at the end of that final edit to see if anyone noticed!

IP

You got it Chris!

Someone more creative than me should take the torch for creating the next clue :)

Chris Stockingwrote:

Someone more creative than me should take the torch for creating the next clue :)

You should dumb it down for us Chris. I haven't known any of the answers for like months now.

Luke Lalorwrote:

You should dumb it down for us Chris. I haven't known any of the answers for like months now.

It's starting to look as if Chris isn't going to. Why not post one up yourself?

A newer route that is a classic waiting to be discovered. Don't let the craig scare you, since there is nothing "spooky" about this route! Better warm up, because the crimpy crux comes quick! You climb through pleasant moderate climbing preparing yourself for a beautiful slab splitter lieback that guards the chains (if such a thing can exist).

Luke Lalorwrote:

A newer route that is a classic waiting to be discovered. Don't let the craig scare you, since there is nothing "spooky" about this route! Better warm up, because the crimpy crux comes quick! You climb through pleasant moderate climbing preparing yourself for a beautiful slab splitter lieback that guards the chains (if such a thing can exist).

Clearly, this must be a route at Halloween, but which one? 

It is a pretty new route to be named after such an old person, but perhaps we can say it is "grandfathered" in.

Ralph!

Big Redwrote:

Ralph!

Yup! Maybe not too hard if you are strong, but pretty darn hard for me haha.

By god, do you really think they hang out and climb this short route when they aren’t working?

Don’t get me wrong, it is of awesome quality! But maybe you find them around the corner to the left projecting the route with permadraws. 

Not Heresy? (I was thinking of Chain Reaction as a perma-route to the left, but that's a bit further than 'around the corner')

Not at Smith, a fair bit North. It might be more fair to put those acronym letters in the correct order but let’s let it simmer for now. 

Jealous God? (Hmm, maybe not. I posted this before seeing your extra hint.)

Jacob Posnerwrote:

Jealous God? (Hmm, maybe not. I posted this before seeing your extra hint.)

Yes, sorry! Scrambled acronym letters for the route name, not an anagram. 

Can't think of any perma drawed areas north of Smith honestly besides world wall. In canada?

Not quite but pretty close. The permadraw route is certainly an anomaly. Let’s get back to intended route. This route is quite comical compared to all of the other routes the first ascensionist has put up around the globe. That resume includes a 4,000m route in Pakistan that is considered one of the greatest alpine style routes of all time.

There isn’t a PHat hold on this route. It’s mostly thin face climbing.