Find this route about 20 feet or so to the left of Life after James (good pix of this on this website).Identify this as the dirty crack system with a bolt at the base. Climb the dirty crack over a roof skipping the first bolt. This bolt is useless and unnecessary as there is a great cam placement aprox. 4 inches from the bolt. Continue up to the second roof. Climb this on the left 10a, or around to the right (easier).Continue up the crack system until another bolt is encountered. Again this bolt is completely unneccesary. Place an alien right next to the bolt and climb a quick crux (9).Exit the crack and find yourself on the slab.The first time I led this I place gear to protect my second and traversed across the slab to the right to the LAJ anchor and rappeled.The second time that I led this I went straight up the slab for a few feet, placed marginal gear, did a mantle (10a poor pro), then traversed straight left to the bolt anchor at the top of P1 of Long December. From there we climbed out to the left of the LD anchor and climbed the twin seam/cracks up the left margin of the slab (p2 of Ceasar's crack) to the anchor at the top of p2 of Long December. The twin seam/crack is a very nice trad pitch. The bolts on p2 of LD are just to the right when climbing this crack system but wanting to do a trad lead I ingnored them.Doing Ranklands this way makes for a very enjoyable 2 pitch 10a trad outing.
Ranklands does not have the greatest rock at the base but the holds that look chossy are suprisingly solid. Not a destination climb by any means but worth doing once when visiting the December Wall.
Protection
A regular full trad rack will suffice for this pitch.
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