Jam the steep hand and fist crack for about 100' until the crack splits left and right. The crack will gradually go back left following a large flake until you get to a stance beneath a splitter wide-hands/fist crack. P5: Follow the cracks up and slightly right in a left facing dihedral from what I can recall. Climb past an anchor and up another overhanging bulge to a good belay stance. Plug a couple pieces at the lip and fire it, I didn't think this was too hard, just don't hang out or fiddle with gear until you're back on your feet. Climb up 20' until you're beneath a large corner roof. P4: The crux of this pitch and the whole climb is obvious. Power through a crack near the left side of the overhang and then traverse back right to gain another crack that continues up and belays about 20' below the crux roof. P3: Continue up the dihedral till you get to another overhang. (Note: I was about 5' short of the anchor so we had to simul-climb to reach it). Layback to the right off a wide crack and into a dihedral and belay at the anchor. Hand traverse right until the crack starts heading straight up again and follow it past an anchor into a perfect 2" crack. P2: Continue up the crack for about 10' until you get to another crack that angles slightly up and right. Work your way up the solid 5.10 OW and pull onto lower angle rock to another anchor. The crack gradually widens to an offwidth as the wall gets steeper. Continue up an obvious crack bypassing the first anchor. P1: Climb up a steep right facing dihedral with two cracks and pull through a slight overhang on the left. Bring two ropes to rap off (we had a tag line) and some warm clothes since you'll be in the shade for most of the climb. Done this way we thought that every pitch was in the 5.10 range. The following description is as my partner and I climbed it which was in six long pitches with a 60m rope. This climb is one of the best I have ever done! It follows a continuous crack system for almost 900 feet and has everything from fingers to offwidth.
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