Exit Laughing (Mid-Cliff Start)

A south wall mega pitch adventure! Exit Laughing takes a rather outrageous line from the start of high plains drifter all the way to the top of the cliff, throughly testing your footwork and consuming all your long runners. This pitch unfortunately seeps for much of the season, so it’s not climbed very often.
Start by climbing the first pitch of Pressure Drop (5.9), following a cool thin hands/finger crack to a bolted belay out left. Now that you’ve gotten yourself to the start of the route, your journey has merely begun. Climb the initial slab of High Plains Drifter (5.7 R), getting your first piece about 20 feet off the belay. More moderate climbing up a low angle crack leads to the base of the wild headwall. Before the final headwall, break left on the obvious long undercling.
Here you will discover those locks are a little more sparse than you might like, and oh man are those feet glassy. Make a tenuous traverse left, smearing, underclinging, and placing gear in the occasional finger pods. Pass the crux at the very end and gain a stance of relief. Here you have two options, break left, climbing the final crack of Sea Gypsy, or, climb the original finish up a scrappy, adventurous corner. Climb through the steep corner/gully on big holds, being very mindful of loose rock, eventually moving up a final slab into a sea of bushes. Quest up to a pine tree and belay.

To descend, one can move left on the bushy ledge, and gain the bolted anchor of Fat Back Crack.

The obvious undercling traverse below the headwall of High Plains Drifter/Pressure Drop

Single rack from 0.3 to #3, with doubles from 0.4 - 0.75. Small cams can be helpful but aren’t mandatory. Lots of alpine draws to keep rope drag low.