PRINT: Rock Climb [E] End of the World, Exit 32; Little Si

[E] End of the World

5.12a, Sport, 115 ft (35 m),

Avg: 2.3 from 23 votes
FA: Mike Massey & Jeff Parmenter (1998)
Washington > Central-W Casca… > N Bend & Vicinity > Exit 32; Little Si > World Wall Group > World Wall

Description

The rightmost extension to Opening Act. Climb a 5.9 crack/flake to a ledge with two bolts (the Opening Act anchors) and continue up the right bolt line from the chains, slapping up the arete to finish at the Judgement Day anchors. 70m rope required to get off.

Location

Locate the obvious lieback crack about 30 feet to the right of Rainy Day Women. The route then follows the right hand arete above

Protection

12 bolts, fixed draws on Opening Act.

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Approximate routes from shared initial bolt for:
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Girls in the Gym 5.10c (blue)
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Opening Act 5.9 (red)
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The Crack 5.13a (yellow)
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PC-7 5.13a (purple)
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End of the World 5.12a (orange, very rough, hard to see bolts)

Approximate routes from shared initial bolt for: Girls in the Gym 5.10c (blue) Opening Act 5.9 (red) The Crack 5.13a (yellow) PC-7 5.13a (purple) End of the World 5.12a (orange, very rough, h…

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MilesC

5.12a

Underrated, I think. From the ledge through the crux is steep and fun arete climbing. Wish there was a bit more hard climbing, but the approach is not bad. Built-in warmup. Aug 28, 2016

Chris Stocking
Seattle, WA

The first few bolts on this that come after the anchors on Opening Act look like they're in pretty bad shape (hangers look okay, but the bolts themselves look like they're pretty corroded). Didn't climb far enough to check out the bolts higher up. The anchors on Opening Act would maybe keep you off the ground if the first couple bolts failed, but it'd be a long, ugly fall onto the approach slab/ledge. Jun 2, 2020

Nick Drake
Kent, WA

On Chris's comment, in replacement work I've found lots of hardware at 32 seems to rust on bolt heads while the sleeve and bolt inside the hole remain in great condition. Stone seems to lack porosity to get much moisture inside the holes, have pulled quite a few from late 90s that looked terrible on the outside and brand new in the hole. I wouldn't worry about these failing for quite some time, lifespan seems to be ~28-30 years before they start becoming really corroded inside the hole to the point of being hard to remove (even then I've only found one out of 80 that I wouldn't want to whip on). Jul 17, 2020

John Laws
Seattle, WA

Definitely an underrated route once you get through the somewhat chossy moves just past the ledge. A great little adventure when the wall is particularly busy!

The anchor situation is a little confusing. I ended up traversing a short ways past the first anchor I saw to a second anchor with longer chains (no lower off carabiners) which I rethreaded and lowered off of just fine with a 70m.

You could probably move even further left to the Judgement Day anchor (which has fixed lower-off gear) but I opted not to as I couldn't really read the traverse. Jun 10, 2022

Sergey Shelukhin
Seattle, WA

Traverse to the Judgement Day anchor (the one with lower-offs) is not too bad (5.10? feels kinda like rock on BLM-6 route). However cleaning on lower off that anchor would be very difficult if not impossible. Aug 4, 2022