Los Gigantos Butte III (Fiend without a Face) 

Here's some more details; Pitch 1; 5.9 A3 up to a good ledge. Pitch 2; Free and aid up an O W crack (2 bolts) on some very funky, hollow-sounding rock, to a belay on the right from Fixed Pins. Pitch 3; goes up a splitter crack (A1) which probably would go free (5.10-5.11 ?)...near the top... cut to the left (A3) and up some loose rock to the summit. We got caught in a very violent sandstorm during the first ascent. It was epic....zero visibility, poor communication, sandblasting, howling wind,.... scary stuff for us. I originally had another line picked out......this wild looking thin splitter (To the right of this route)...I even bought a bunch of pins mail order for this line;... but it looked too scary, and this line looked a bit easier;...I'm not sure it was;...we found the climbing on this route to be plenty challenging. Our rap anchor on top , I believe, was a tube-chock on a very long extended extra piece of rope. During the first ascent, we rappelled off single ropes and left them fixed, for we believe that if we rappelled on doubles and pulled our ropes, and they somehow got stuck, we might not survive out in the storm....We came back the next weekend (In better weather), jumared the fixed lines, and did proper double rope raps. I don't think this route has had a second ascent. It's out there....

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