A good single-pitch route on the approach to the longer Muralla Grande routes, with good clean Sandia face climbing with enough cracks to keep it from getting scary.
Climb the clean face right of the big dihedral. (Start near the corner and climb straight up past a lone bolt to reach a 2bolt anchor. Soon, move right to a finger crack (passing the crux), then angle up and left to a flake. From here, straight up to the high 2bolt anchor.)
Location
This route is the first clean face you come to on the approach down Chimney Canyon, at the SE end of Muralla Grande. This climb ascends a striking clean face right of a prominent right-facing corner. The rap slings/bolts are also visible from below. To get down: do one double rope rappel (35m), or 2 single rope rappels (using the intermediate 2 bolt anchor 1/3 of the way up; (25m,10m). I haven't tried it, but I think one rap with a 70m rope would work.
Protection
1 set cams up to 2" + 1 set nuts is good. A 2-bolt anchor is at the top, and another 2 bolt anchor at 1/3 of the way up enables rappeling the route in two raps with a single rope (50m almost certainly ok). Bolts are old buttonheads, someone with time and energy might want to modernize them...
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