Good route that has a little more "style" than some of its neighbors. It keeps you on your toes and requires a solid skill set of different types of climbing. Pre-hanging the draws will make it feel easier.
Location
This route is located at the base of the White Wall. It follows some reachy moves and pockets up to bulge and over through a crack.
Protection
There are four bolts and fixed anchors at the top that are reachable by going around on the trail. Easy to setup TR.
Thought I mention(for those who haven't lead it yet), even with four bolts I still place a cam (red metolious tri cam or similar) before I mantel up on the small ledge near the top after the crux. It tends to collect dirt and will feel insecure if it hasn't been swept off in a while.
Yep, Paul cruised it, very smooth. The route was originally done with pre-placed trad gear and the two bolts. The original first bolt was basically at the present day first bolt location, the original 2nd was about where the 3rd is now. I later placed what's now the 4th bolt because that was about where I had used the pre-placed trad gear and I knew it would be goofy to try to place that gear ground up. Then after the new trail got built I re-cleaned and retro bolted the bottom section. Yep, I retro bolted my own route, twice. Why? - Because what kind of sense does a rap cleaned, rap bolted, seriously R rated route make? The old hand drilled petzl self drives looked kinda unsafe and needed replacing anyway. As mentioned in the earlier posts , I'd still use a cam or two after the last bolt but you young strong sport climbers probably won't feel the need.
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