Starting up Pitch 10.

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Starting up Pitch 10.

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Pitch 5. The left leaning crack above the roof.

Looking down from belay at pitch 3 bolted anchor

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Steph Abegg

Mar 25, 2018

“Starting up Pitch 10.”

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Descent options from Mescalito.

new bolt & old school

Great shot of the varnished iron rock on this route.

Alex, p6

p1 & 2

Above pitch 10, follow broken rock for a couple of pitches to the summit cairn of Mescalito. Lower fifth class.

Pitch 9 climbs twin cracks and then heads rightward to a big ledge at the bottom of a corner with a single bolt.

Pitch 6 climbs huecos on the right side past the marked bolt.

Pitch 6 traverses left from the piton anchor. Note the pod and dirty gully above - don't climb that!

Pitch 6 ends on the face after the leftward traverse. One bolt was missing from the anchor. I built a trad anchor in the crack below the bolt.

Pitch 8 passes the roof on the right side.

Pitch 10: a crack leads to a roof. This is the crux pitch of the upper route.

Pitch 7 climbs cracks to a ledge below the roof.

Pitch 10 roof.

Pitch 5 roof above above a bolt. <br>
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This is the first pitch above the 4-pitch "normal route".

Dark Shadows Route Overlay.

Old piton on Pitch 6.

Mike, p3

Single bolt at top of Pitch 9. You can back this up with an 0.4 cam.

Looking up Pitch 7.

Pitch 5. The left leaning crack above the roof.

Starting up Pitch 10.

Looking down from belay at pitch 3 bolted anchor

Pitch 5 ends above the pillar on the left.

Starting the descent from the summit via the south side. Follow carins....

Rap at the base of the gully descent on the south side. There are 2 bolted anchors. The first rappel is about 10m and the second about 25m. So you probably could do them with a single 70m, but to minimize chances of getting a rope stuck might be better to just do two rappels.

Stinky and I on dark shadows.

Alex, p3

Bolted rap station near the base of the gully descent on the south side.

A satellite view of the descent according to Handren guidebook. Took us 3 hours summit to car, but only required one rappel at the very end. Budget 1 - 1.5 hrs of sunglight to find the gully (after crossing the saddle) after which a headlamp descent is OK.