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Dirty Laundry

5.11d, Sport,  Avg: 3.4 from 5 votes
FA: Cal Folsom & Greg Collum 1990
Washington > Central-W Casca… > Skykomish Valley > Index > Upper Wall's Lo… > Little Elvis

Description

Little Elvis is a funky looking cliff and most of the routes here are a bit funky. For example, the route Love Buttons climbs quite moderately until the roof at the top which is significantly harder than the remainder of the route. The vast majority of the time climbers consider it an 11b climb and lower from the roof. Shark Bait (An arête to the left) is fun climbing that suddenly changes character at the top. This time becoming much easier at the top than the bottom.  One route, Dirty Laundry, is consistent top to anchor and is one of my favorite routes at the Town Walls.

Scrambling leads up to the base of three routes (“Cornered” ascends an obvious corner. “Love Buttons” starts just to the right.) Dirty Laundry starts up Love Buttons and then branches out to the right and then heads straight up the wall through an obvious weakness. The climbing up this section is quintessential Index climbing. The crux comes right at the top. Beautiful climbing!

Protection

Bolts with an optional small cam near the top.

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Blue to red is Dirty Laundry. If this were closer to the road it would be on the cover of a magazine
[Hide Photo] Blue to red is Dirty Laundry. If this were closer to the road it would be on the cover of a magazine

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Geoff Georges
Seattle, WA
  5.11d
[Hide Comment] dreaded Kong hangers and rusty bolts- seem ok.
This would be really good if cleaned, it does seem to be the only route ever climbed here, so it was the cleanest. May 11, 2020
Adam Wood
seattle
 
[Hide Comment] Entirely cleaned and rebolted June 2020 and lowering anchors added compliments of WARP. Jul 2, 2020
[Hide Comment] @Darryl @Adam -- following this convo. I found Dirty Laundry spectacularly good... but also incredibly hard. Especially the final boulder problem. But it may not be so bad if the seam at the top was really immaculately clean! Jul 17, 2020