Vanishing Point 

FA:  Barry Bates and Loyd Price, 1971 Type:  Trad Consensus:  5.10d [details] Length:  1 pitch Views: 304 page views Submitted By: Sirius on Dec 19, 2007 Add Photo  Add Comment

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Description 

A classic and isolated line. Scum your way up the first 15 ft of vegetation and choss to a stance beneath the small but prominent roof split by a laser-cut crack. From here on out, the rock is excellent quality. Pull up to the roof on jugs and muscle your way over the lip on off-finger jams.

This rattly-finger section (.10d) lasts maybe 20 ft before you sink a thank god handjam. From here, super fun jamming (mostly in the golden 2" range - reminded this climber of a light version of Reed's Direct p2) leads a long, enjoyable ways to the top. Scramble your way up and left to the rap station (outstanding spot) at a tree.

Location 

From the base of Maņana (ref. Alexey's approach description for the area), walk left along the base of the wall a good ways (+/- 15 minutes). You will pass the obvious lines of Ying-Yang, Mental Block, and the Tilted Mitten. From the Tilted Mitten proceed another 1,000 ft, per Reid. To get to the start of Vanishing Point, you will circle under and around a small buttress to ascend a steep and grassy embankment with a clear and well worn climber's trail. Vanishing Point is the attractive off-fingers splitter in the center of the face (next to a small tree) that splits a roof 25 feet up. 15 feet of vegetated choss lead to this roof. Note that there is another striking finger-sized splitter a ways to the left of Vanishing Point, near an arete - a much harder and headier affair, by the look of it. Make sure you pick the right line!

Protection 

To 2.5", reco extra hand sizes. As of summer '07 there was a fixed Alien at the crux lip of the roof.