Type: Trad, 2 pitches
GPS: 33.75985, -116.68542
FA: Bob Gaines and Frank Bentwood, 2010.
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Shared By: Bob Gaines on Oct 18, 2023
Admins: C Miller, Mike Morley, Adam Stackhouse, Salamanizer Ski, Justin Johnsen, Vicki Schwantes

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With a direct first pitch and a direct start to the second pitch, this makes for a better and more challenging climb than the original Dos Equis route.

Pitch 1. Begin about 40 feet up the 4th class gully for Fingertip Traverse.

Climb a flake leading out to the right, then up to a thin crack with a bolt (5.8). Move right across a right-slanting ramp up to a second bolt that protects thin slab moves (10c) up to the third bolt on the second pitch of El Camino Real. Traverse left to the Jungle Ledge belay.

Pitch 2: From the lower right edge of Jungle Ledge, crank a short, steep section past two bolts (11a) onto the outside face of the exposed slab, then up easier face climbing past two bolts. A fifth bolt protects the psychological crux: slightly runout 10c face moves up to a crack that leads to a 2-bolt belay/rappel anchor.

Location Suggest change

Starts between Fingertip Traverse and El Camino Real.

Protection Suggest change

Pro: thin to 2 inches.

Descent: From the bolts at the top of pitch 2, you can make a 100-foot rappel to Jungle Ledge, then another 100-foot rappel (from a tree) down to the Fingertip Traverse gully, where some 4th class downclimbing gets you to the ground.

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