Type: Trad, 7 pitches
GPS: 47.52963, -120.71869
FA: Jeromy Markee, Jacob Leonard
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Shared By: Jeromy Markee on Aug 30, 2023
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Description Suggest change

This is a two pitch variation of Nebula that avoids its two crux pitches.

The route climbs a featured 60m slab, double roofs, a steep & sustained crack head wall, and a wild tips traverse out of Jimmy's Roof into a long & techy face where the route meets up at the Diving Board ledge with Afterburner. All bolted anchors.

P1, 5.10: All draws, 1x - .2,.3,#1. 2x- .4

The Silver Tongue. Trust your rubber and teeter up the slab passing two distinct cruxes.  Enter the "Frog Flake" and enjoy good jams and gear before you have to punch it to the bolt. Use a runner on the bolt and move left to the next bolt, then up to the anchor.

P2, 5.11+: All draws. 1x- .4, .75

Move few feet past the first bolt until you can traverse easily left, into the corner. Boulder straight over the 1st bulge using a hidden crimp into an awkward underling. Traverse rightward to the white A-Frame Roof. Once above, follow two bolts rightward thru an awkward fin-pinch feature. Follow the bolts up and thru a short right facing corner. Ramble up easy unprotected terrain to an anchor on the huge "Jungle Ledge". (NOTE: you will not be able to communicate with your partner no matter how loud you yell).

P3, 5.12-, The whole rack

From the chain anchor, move the belay ~15ft right to a two bolt anchor below the obvious crack system.

Climb the crack for 25m-ish to a small rooflet at the end of a splitter dihedral where you'll find the obvious leftward under-cling traverse. DO NOT go higher to the second under-cling. It is possible to go higher & get a 0.3 in, however, traversing here is harder and the rope drag heinous later. 

Reach way out and place a good 0.4 &/or 0.5 into the under-cling & follow it until it finishes at a bolt next to a bouldery finger crack. Follow this until moving left at the next bolt and up to the anchor.

P4, 5.10: all draws, 2x- .2 to .75, 1x- #1

Follow the thin cracks trending right to where the angle steepens and eventually the crack goes up and to a bolt on dikes. Scramble up to the base of a small tower (optional belay with bolt and 0.75) move up the clean flakes to bolts with some short lived but excellent face climbing. Shared belay with Afterburner below Jimmy's Roof. 

P5: 5.11- all draws, 1x- .1, .75, #1, 2x- .2, .3, .4, .5

Climb the bolted face (extend the 3rd) up into the roof. Plug a #1 (extend it) out in the roof, like THIS. Bust out of the roof and move wildly rightward at the horizontal to a good stance and a very a exposed rightward tips traverse. When possible, face climb up thru 2 bolts until the horizontal crack. Build a belay here if you have rope drag. Otherwise, go right along the crack to the next bolt. Follow amazing small knobs straight up to Diving Board Ledge.

P6/7: 5.7X,5.9: 8 draws, single rack .2 - #2

Finish as for Afterburner. (I recommend doing as one pitch if the 1st bolt is double extended) Traverse the ledge far left, up a juggy flake to a bolt. Pull the roof and move right along the lip of the roof until you can move easily up unprotected easy chicken heads to a bolted anchor below the big corner. Belay here or continue up and into the larger corner, 5.9 (Last pitch of Galaxy). Belay off the tree at the top of the wall. 

Walk off. 

 

Location Suggest change

Hike to the base of the wall. Go left which will go downhill. Look for the big pine tree and the long slab with several bolts right in front of it. Just before the 4th class approach to Afterburner/Orbit

Start:https://www.mountainproject.com/photo/124891588

Rack Suggest change

The only pitch you need to take all the cams & nuts on is P3.

See description for pitch by pitch rack.

14 draws (mostly alpine)

Single 0.1, #1, #2

Triple 0.2

Double .3, .4, .5, .75

A set of nuts for P3

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