The first pitch (5.7-) has a nice dihedral in it, and then it is smooth sailing to the GT ledge. The first pitch (140 feet) can be broken up into two pitches (you can traverse left and rappel from the Glypnod tree), but the second pitch goes at 5.2. Make sure you have enough gear to build an anchor at the GT ledge if you are combining the pitches.
At the GT ledge you have to traverse to the right a little bit and there is some very big, loose rock. BE CAREFUL!!
The last pitch is awesome. Very cool, delicate moves to get over to a roof, and then pulling the roof is fun. Also, I had a little bit of a time route finding, but that made it even better. After the roof you get some nice face climbing.
Location
40 feet right of the Glypnod's corner, and a ways left of three pines. Look for the dihedral with a roof.
Protection
I felt like placing the pro was pretty strenuous, but I am leading pretty close to my limit at 5.8.
I had trouble with the first pitch. First, there's a couple of long/burly moves off of a ledge about 30' up, which are not well protected, or trickier than I could manage to protect well. Second, the moves out of the dihedral are fairly in-obvious, stiff, and not well protected at all.
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