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Gong Show Wall

Submitted By: Wade Griffith on Apr 19, 2006
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BETA PHOTO: Gong Show Crag, as seen from the road opposite the...

Description

An excellent crag that can be discerned by the multiple roofs that lace it. The large roof on the left that is split by a hand crack/ OW is the cliffs namesake, the Gong Show.

Getting There

Drive 4.5 miles to the Big Meadow campground and park. Find your way across the stream and a climbers trail will lead you up to a talus scramble.

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Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Gong Show Wall:

Wages of Skin 5.10+ Trad, 80 feet

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Wages of Skin. Looks can be deceiving, no real offwidth moves on the route.

Wages of Skin 5.10+ CA : Sierra Eastside : ... : Gong Show Wall

Once you scramble up a 3rd class ramp, negotiate the menacing off-width above by, well, staying to the left and bypassing it altogether. After a few scrambly moves (5.9/5.10ish), step ACROSS the off-width to your right, then face climb excellent rock past a couple bolts, then turn the lip onto some edgy slab. Gain the crack--which is now on your left--then charge up a slammer handcrack till the crack abruptly angles right into a traversing finger...[more] Browse More Classics in CA

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BETA PHOTO: Gong Show Crag, from further west along with road.	BETA PHOTO: An overview of Gong Show Crag.	Mary Devore coming up on the crux of Wages of Skin...