Looks pretty cool, almost like a flake/finger crack, but is very short and missing the first two hangers. I put up another mid-range 12 on an arete left of it and the 5.10 crack.
It would be much better looking if it were not next to the beautiful, tall routes on the Tower.
I took photos of Richard Boyle on this route on July 4th 2008 after hanging the draws on rappel. The route is more of a compresion route, slapping between the arete and the seam. At the top you commit more to the seam and there is a good hold for moving onto the face before this section.
At the time we were out there all the bolts were in which is a good thing since the climbing is hard right off the deck and you start off of a ledge 20-30 feet off the ground, so a fall would be really bad, there really is no "might be" in this situation, it is going to suck.
I did not climb on the route but from looking at it on rappel and watch it climbed it could be a 3 star route, certainly worth 2.
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