| Type: | Trad, 300 ft (91 m), 3 pitches |
| GPS: | 37.41138, -121.96001 |
| FA: | unknown |
| Page Views: | 22,333 total · 93/month |
| Shared By: | Salamanizer Ski on Jan 23, 2007 |
| Admins: | Aron Quiter, Lurk Er, Mike Morley, Adam Stackhouse, Justin Johnsen, Vicki Schwantes, Salamanizer Ski |
Description
Deception shares the same start as Deception Direct, which takes the obvious vertical crack which goes up the entire formation, to the right/west of Knapsack.
Start up the crack in the corner, and once it becomes feasible to mantle up to the left, do so, and continue up and belay on a blocky ledge. If you miss the obvious mantle/traverse and head straight up, you're on deception direct, which has a thin 5.9 rp protected crux.
2nd pitch goes up, traverses left to a crack which parallels the first crack. Continue up this crack for a long way, then make an exciting 5.6 crux slab smear traverse to rejoin the original crack, and belay on the ledge.
3rd pitch pulls some blocky 5.6 mantles to the summit, short.



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