Anti-Vax Crack

For those of you who came to climb sandstone cracks, this route offers some surprisingly good jamming opportunities as a consolation prize. It takes a direct route to the summit with an excellent first 3 pitches and consistent climbing throughout.

P1 130’ 5.10b (11 bolts): Start up low angle easy terrain, until the wall steepens at a pillar. Utilize the finger crack to move up this pillar before pulling some steeper jugs to the anchor. 

P2 130’ 5.10b (13 bolts): Step left from the anchor and move up a slab. Pull onto the steep face below a mini roof. Mantle and scramble across a broken ledge and move up to a smaller ledge just above. 

P3 130’ 5.11b/c (14 bolts): Climb a moderate face up into the base of the head wall. Move up a groove with thin hands in the back before pulling a bulge (crux) before moving into an arcing hand crack. Mantle onto the ledge. 

P4 150’ 5.9 (14 bolts): Climb through some moderate slab straight up from the belay. Continue up this slab onto the large ledge. Walk across and slightly uphill to an anchor at the base of the next pitch. 

P5 100’ 5.8 (8 bolts): move straight off the anchor staying to the right side of the pillar for the best climbing. Belay just at the lip of the summit

Located between the large pillar right of Contagion and the cave to the left of Patient Zero. The first pitch goes up the mini pillar to the left of the cave.  

14 draws, helmet