Picture showing Selaginella, which starts from the upper ledge. Pick any of the lower approach climbs (Munginella 5.6, The Caverns 5.8, Hanging Teeth 5.8, etc.) to get to the base.

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Picture showing Selaginella, which starts from the upper ledge. Pick any of the lower approach climbs (Munginella 5.6, The Caverns 5.8, Hanging Teeth 5.8, etc.) to get to the base.

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The not recommended way to end the climb.

Looking down pitch 3, as you can see, Josh is in the chimney above the tree, when you exit the chimney, you climb face moves under a large block, when you come out from under the block you'll finally see the bolt, the traverse goes to the ledge below me.

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John Knight

Jan 28, 2008

“Picture showing Selaginella, which starts from the upper ledge. Pick any of the lower approach climbs (Munginella 5.6, The Caverns 5.8, Hanging Teeth 5.8, etc.) to get to the base.”

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Route overlay for Commitment+Selaginella, a fun link-up. Photo by M. Morley.

Selaginella Pitch 3 Traverse - 2

Pitch 3 with the climber doing the traverse, the belay ledge is 4' left of the climber. Also note that there is another shallow chimney feature formed by a rock outcrop which is right before the traverse.

Hanging of the large block before the true lip of the top of the route.

Climber heading to the top of Pitch 1. The tree marks the belay ledge.

Pitch 2. Where the rope disappears is a shallow chimney like feature, above that is a short slabby traverse to the left towards the tree.

Top of pitch 2 showing the 10' of 5.3 slab and the tree you should be able to see from the bottom of pitch 2.

Isaac finishing the last pitch of selaginella. Great smile and great vibes

The not recommended way to end the climb.

Picture showing Selaginella, which starts from the upper ledge. Pick any of the lower approach climbs (Munginella 5.6, The Caverns 5.8, Hanging Teeth 5.8, etc.) to get to the base.

Looking down pitch 3, as you can see, Josh is in the chimney above the tree, when you exit the chimney, you climb face moves under a large block, when you come out from under the block you'll finally see the bolt, the traverse goes to the ledge below me.

George M. in the brief but exciting chimney on P3 of Selaginella.

The "wild" pitch 3 traverse. This was pretty easy but is protected only by a bolt about 15 feet behind you horizontally. Exciting!

The wild 5.8 face moves that finish Pitch 3.

Belay ledge at the top of pitch 1, notice the webbing on the tree there. We opted to setup an anchor rather than use the tree.

Fun but awkward jamming before fun but awkward offwidth on the first pitch. This pitch was excellent and had a little bit of everything.

Gearing up at the base of P1. Big seam in the right facing corner is the opponent.

Alcove at the start, from Munginella we had to walk a bit further then expected. Keep going until you see a well worn area like this.

A great classic line. Well worth it!

Pitch 1: From the climbers position, head left to a ledge with a bush with lots of webbing on it, can setup an anchor in the wall or belay from the tree I guess.

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Zach on the last part

Looking up Pitch 3.

Matt Dinome following the traverse on Pitch 3.

Pitch 1 belay.

Starting up Pitch 4.

Pitch 2.

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