East Dihedrals 

The route can be seen, pretty much centered, in this photograph. It climbs the obvious right facing dihedral which is a little shaded.

This climb has some 3 star quality climbing on it, but also has some easy wandering up loose rock which deteriorates from the route quality.

My first multi-pitch climb. Fun climb.

East dihedrals suffer from inconsistency. Pitch 1 is decent climbing, but nothing spectacular. The hand crack directly above the 1st belay station is the only part of the climb, in my opinion, that warrants a "classic" 3 star rating, but because the rest of the climb above this point is almost a 4th class scramble it detracts. Definitely an easy lead, regardless of the supposed exposure, because of the easy climbing and the bomber protection throughout. Pitch 2 has a lost nut, please leave as is, as it isn't worth your trouble getting it out.

This is a great little climb that can be done in two pitches with a 60M rope. Climb the first pitch past the two ledges to a nice belay ledge that has a piton about 8 feet up at about 2 o'clock. From here most the exciting climbing is done. I moved out on the face, just left of the piton, and continued up. This climb was great as two pitches, I saw no need for an additonal belay.

The wire on the lost nut on the last pitch has been chopped. There is also a lost tri-cam on the first pitch, good luck trying to "un-sink the pink". We climbed this in two pitches, just as Jason mentioned (with the belay just below the pin). For the second pitch, finish the dihedral and once it starts to level out, climb out on the face. There is a great crack below a small juniper and the face climbing above the juniper is great too.

Who chops a fixed nut?

This route is fun, but should definitely be done in two pitches. Otherwise I'm not sure it would be worth it. Not sustained enough, but worth doing if you're in the area anyway.

A good day is to do all three 5.6 routes on this formation (Steort's, East Dihedrals, North Dihedrals). I left out Jig's Up because when I do Steort's Ridge I always seem to do a "Dead Snag highlight tour" in which I start in the dihedral for East Dihedrals, cut right after the small bulge, sometimes use the thin cracks on Jigs Up (p2) and finish on the arete for Steort's up top. It always just seems more logical this way.

One of first trad leads, the roof kind of freaked me out. It was good fun though, with good belay set ups and fun corner cracks. Belay at the top of the first pitch from the steort's ridge belay.The top of the second pitch can be set up across from the 2nd rap chains for steort's ridge. You can easy walk to them on easily ledges from there.

First and second pitch were decent, last short pitch was weak. Lost a friend on this one (the wild-country variety). My fiancee got it wedged deep in a crack. At least it was one of my old forged ones. I guess the moral of the story is; once you get a fiance, you are bound to lose some friends!

I combined pitches 1 and 2 with a 70 and belayed on the nice ledge about 40 feet below the top (with about 10-15 feet of rope left). It was great and rope drag wasn't an issue.