[Hide Comment] I'm not sure about traversing around the back side of the Central tower, it was not obvious to me where to go...but you can make it down following the route with one rope instead of double ropes: at the pin/flake belay rap (this piece of work left me wanting for two sport-route-bomber-bolts and how!) down right (as you look down, toward the start of Captain Beyond) there is a third rap station around a massive horn. It's a little tricky to get to, a little spicey when pulling the rope (I hope your karma is good) and I would imagine very annoying if someone was actually trying to climb the route. Annoying to the climbers that is! Next time I want to go with someone who knows the way around the back side to the "traditional" rappel route. Oct 7, 2001

[Hide Comment] Done the back side descent to the rappel stations. Not obvious, but more traversing and more down and more up climbing than you might expect does get you there. Use your instincts. It is never more than 5.5 to get off. I would recommend staying roped up. By the way, not all the rappel points of the RR are beautiful. Mar 12, 2002

[Hide Comment] I think the rap station at the "massive horn" referred to in a previous comment seems more accurately described as a "man-sized detached flake swaddled in bleached webbing". That is, if it's the collection of manky old webbing round a leaning/perched 5 ft x 3 ft block, straight up from the crack that P1 of Cpt. Beyond climbs, to the left of P1 of Culp's. The flake ensemble _is_ "backed up" by a stopper and wedged webbing knot up higher (to hold the flake up?).We saw it from the ground, and figgered it would make an easy end for doing only p1 of Culp's Fault (not knowing what was at the top of P1). I don't recommend this course. The "horn" seems not long for the cliff. But that's just, like, my opinion, man. Anyway, the stopper has a biner, and the webbing-knot a rap ring, so we rapped off that. If we had had some webbing (duh!), we'd have placed another stopper, and made something a bit more inspiring. just a head's up. Sep 20, 2003

[Hide Comment] The rap stations looked the same from 5 years ago. Take webbing and a knife and clean it up. We replaced as many pieces as we could. Aug 19, 2008

[Hide Comment] Climbed at Mickey Mouse Wall for the 1st time yesterday and led this climb. Fun and varied route. The crux on P1 felt more like a 5.9. Thin finger slots, tenuous feet to get to better ground. For descending, we 1st tried walking over to the raps between the north and central towers. But, it seemed like a pain to get there so we instead rapped down close to Culp's Fault and had to keep traversing to the east to find rap stations. But, it worked out with one rope. Sep 28, 2008

[Hide Comment] Climbed this route last weekend, and it turned into somewhat of an epic. Just a heads up to anyone wanting to rap down the route between the two towers: give yourself lots of extra time. We roped up again for safety, and all in all, it took us a lot longer to traverse the back and rap down than to actually climb the route. We reached the base as night fell. Good thing we brought our "just in case" headlamp! It all would've been fine if we hadn't started the approach at noon on an October day. But again, the notification is simply that reaching the rap anchors is time consuming. Oct 12, 2011

[Hide Comment] To get around to the rappel station, follow the gully off the north side of the summit and down-climb about 50 feet, then traverse left. You will follow some mellow 5th class ledges loosing some elevation and traversing west. There is a slot that you will climb what will feel like a roof, through a slot.

Keep heading west while descending over the grass ledge and around the next bulge. Continue around this curve 50 or so feet further, continuing to loose elevation. Right before this turns into a gully, scramble up the slabs heading back into the trees. These slabs will not protect well with gear but there are 'positive' holds at the low point of the slab (or it seemed possible to enter the low point of this gully and ascend that). Follow this gully all the way to the base of the 'mouse ears'.

This will take about 15 minutes.

New rap stations are in place as of today 9/20/14!, thanks to everyone who was out there replacing bolts your crew was amazing!... for this rap station, rapper's right over the block 25 feet below you. From this side, the next station is obvious in the right hand corner of the face. Sep 21, 2014

[Hide Comment] This route doesn't seem to be done very often....

1. Sketchy raps: we chose the double-rope rap option based on comments here that made it seem less sketchy than the traverse to the standard Mickey Mouse Wall raps, but the Culp's Fault anchors were not the most bomber, and one needed tat replacement (my chalkbag belt wasn't enough, had to leave a sling and biner, too). It seems like the traverse option might be better, but I haven't done it.

2. Choss & overgrowth - was afraid of kicking rocks on my belayer or having holds come out more so than most Eldo routes.

3. The P1 crux is pretty heads up, definitely deserves a PG or PG-13. IMO, the RP was not very good. Protected OK with the RP, #0 purple Metolius, and #2 ballnut all backing each other up. Oct 17, 2022