Bikini Wax  5.12b

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Type:  Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 90 feet Consensus:  5.12b [details] FA:  Mike Ray, Mike Caldwell New Route:  Yes Submitted By:  J pee on Mar 24, 2006 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

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Season raptor closures MORE INFO >>> The following areas are closed from March 1-July 31 or until further notice: Twin Owls, Rock One, Batman Rock, Batman Pinnacle, Sheep Mountain, Thunder Buttress, The Parish, Lightning Rock and Checkerboard Rock are currently closed. The closures include the named rock formations and the areas extending 100 yards surrounding the base of the formation. This includes all climbing routes, outcroppings, cliffs, faces, ascent and descent routes and climber's access trails to the formation. Alligator Rock is also closed. www.nps.gov/romo/planyourvisit/area_closures.htm This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund, and Mountain Project. You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment

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[I'm pretty sure this is the new route in between Facial Hair and Close Encounters. It starts just right of Facial Hair in a cool right-angling flake crack just left of the arete. The crack leads up to a neat bulge and a sloping ledge on which you step right into a deep flare with fists in the back. Hard moves exiting the flare deposit you at a horizontal break from which you climb straight up past new bolts with hard looking slabbin'. I've heard there's a bolt anchor up there too.]

Location 

[...pretty sure this is the new route in between Facial Hair and Close Encounters. It starts just right of Facial Hair, which is right of Gollum's Arch, in a cool right-angling flake crack just left of the arete.]