Tin Man 

Broken now? Harder perhaps? Rumors and innuendo?

Apparently, a big pinch ripped off from the section just before you get to the ramp, so both this route and Tin Monkeys are going to be harder. If anybody does them, please let us know what you think.

so I did tin man last sat. in my opinion it is harder than kundilini, but softer than the linkup. not as pumpy as dinosaur but the moves felt harder. the new boulder problem feels at least v6.

i hear 13a or 13b since the broken hold... it would be cool if this description and grade could be updated...

Kind of hard to update the description having not climbed the new sequence. Also impossible to suggest a grade. I made updates based on the above comments but actually the route was downgraded to 12c/d in Ward's new guidebook so if the boulder problem really is "only" V6 maybe 12d is still accurate. Like I said I have no personal experience to base this on (YET). Maybe I have a new re-project (retropoint?)
Mark, thanks for posting those photos! You must have dug those out of the archives from '06 or '07? I had forgotten you took them.

You are very welcome. Yup, aug '07. I had forgotten I had them too, but found them while poking through my files. Here are a couple more from the series.

I really liked this route when I put it up. The start reminds me of Red River Gorge climbing, then the bouldery section just before the ramp was powerful and body intensive. The ramp is harder than it looks, requiring subtle foot placements to get the kneebars, and big barndoory crossovers. I watched Vadim V. spanking himself on this when he wasn't seeing the kneebars. The finish is nice pumpy jugs.

Yeah, it kind of looks like you could just walk up the ramp, doesn't it? The handholds all seem to be turned the wrong way, if I remember correctly. It's a really fun route to figure out!